St. Maximilian

St. Maximilian is a Roman Catholic parish church built for Munich’s Isar suburb, where the building’s presence is tied to the river—and to the city’s industrial outlook. Work began in 1892 and continued until 1908, with the church designed by Heinrich von Schmidt in the Romanesque Revival style. When the construction reached its final phase in 1908, the result was a Catholic house of worship that faces toward the Deutsches Museum across the water. That setting matters: the Isarfront has long linked older parish life to Munich’s later engineering and museum culture. Today, the parish is led by Fr Rainer Maria Schießler, keeping the church functioning as a working community church rather than a purely historic shell. …

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