St. Matthias
St. Matthias is a Catholic parish church in Munich that you can date precisely to 1965, when the building was constructed to plans by Alexander von Branca. The church isn’t a lone structure: it forms a closed ensemble with the parsonage and community house, all executed in a uniform, brown brick character inside and out—an approach typical of mid-century brutalist planning. Access to the churchyard comes through a campanile rising to about twenty meters, enclosing a courtyard paved with reddish brick. In the eastern mass, a windowless church volume anchors the plan, while a 14-meter-high rotunda projects upward to create a focal silhouette visible from a distance. …
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