Pfarrkirche St. Matthäus
Pfarrkirche St. Matthäus—local name *Matthäuskirche*—is the most significant Lutheran church in Munich, and it carries that role in a distinctly modern form. The church you see today was built between 1953 and 1957 under plans by Gustav Gsaenger, as the successor to an older Matthäuskirche. That earlier church had been erected in 1833 in a late-classical style and, after only 105 years, was demolished in 1938. From 1953, the congregation and the city moved from a nineteenth-century evangelical landmark to a postwar reconstruction era, expressed here in modern architecture. St. Matthäus is also a Lutheran “Bischofskirche,” functioning as a preaching site for the Landesbischof of the Evangelisch-Lutherischen Kirche in Bayern, and it hosts the work known as “Matthäusdienste” for people without church ties. …
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