Theatinerkirche St. Kajetan
In Theatinerkirche St. Kajetan—known in German as the Theatinerkirche St. Kajetan und Adelheid—Munich once had a Roman Catholic church built as both a prayer and a political statement. Elector Ferdinand Maria and his wife, Henriette Adelaide of Savoy founded it as a gesture of thanks for the birth of the long-awaited Bavarian heir, Prince Max Emanuel, born on 11 July 1662. The cornerstone was laid on 29 April 1663, and the design contract went to Italian architect Agostino Barelli, who modelled it on Rome’s Sant’Andrea della Valle. Construction stretched across decades: Barelli’s work was later carried forward by Enrico Zuccalli, who added two towers rising to 64.6 metres and completed the dome at 71 metres in 1690. …
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