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The Benedictine Abbey in the center of Munich

  
St. Boniface's Abbey was founded by King Ludwig I of Bavaria in the XIX century



Unfortunately the interior was 'updated' by the current inhabitants


Interior of St. Boniface ca. 1894. Source Wikipedia

Interior of St. Boniface 2011...

3 comments:

  1. that's "renovation" is downright criminal.

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  2. puuh... nothing to say about this iconoclasm!

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  3. This was not the result of a 'renovation' of the former beautifully appointed Romanesque basilica. The place was firebombed in WW2. Only the façade and first three or four 'bays' survived. While it would have been better, without a doubt, for them to have completely restored the basilica to its former glory, instead of going with a 'spaceship' look, the initial destruction was not an act of willful vandalism by the monks.

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