Zu den heiligen zwölf Aposteln

Zu den heiligen zwölf Aposteln is a Catholic parish church in Munich that carries an unusually direct postwar story in its very site planning. A wooden emergency church stood here since 1928, but the hoped-for permanent replacement after a building competition in 1936 was blocked by the Nazi-era authorities. After the end of World War II, in 1945, the parish was raised to a “Stadtpfarrei,” and another competition followed in 1951—won by Munich architect Sep Ruf, whose design you see realized in the church built in 1953. On 9 November 1953, the church was consecrated after a two-year construction phase by Joseph Cardinal Wendel. Architecturally, it’s a restrained, white-plastered brick building in a simple cubic form, with a hall church interior, a semicircular apse, and a north-side bell tower. …

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