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Asamkirche

This Late Baroque confection was built from 1733 to 1746 as a private chapel by Egid Quirin Asam - he could see the altar from his house next door. His brother, Cosmas Damian Asam, did the frescoes. The church is dedicated to St John Nepomuk (1345-93), a Bohemian monk cast into the river Vltava in Prague at the behest of King Wenceslaus IV. Legend has it that Nepomuk refused to divulge the queen's confessional secrets, but his real crime was to back the wrong candidate for abbot. The church is wonderful by candlelight, especially at the Christmas Eve service, replete with Bavarian singers in the choir stall.

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Address: Sendlinger Straße 32
Getting there: U-Bahn: Sendlinger Tor
Hours: Sun-Thu 09:00-18:00, Fri 13:00-18:00
Website: alterpeter.de (opens in a new tab)

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