St. Johannes
St. Johannes is a Lutheran parish church whose name comes with a clear biblical lineage: it was dedicated in 1916 as the fourth Lutheran church within central Munich and the sixth in the enlarged city. It continues a naming tradition started by the first three inner-city Evangelical churches, which had been named after the Evangelists Matthew, Mark, and Luke—here, the parish church takes its place with John. Haidhausen’s need for its own congregation grew as the area developed after 1870: right on the east side of the Isar, the number of Protestants rose from 1,307 in 1875 to 2,567 by 1885. A Protestants’ committee pushed for a church and a resident pastor, and Vikar Georg Glungler arrived in 1888, with Preysingplatz chosen as the building site. …
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