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Munich (München) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Bavaria, the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg.St.Johann Nepomuk Church ("Asam Church“) is the former private church of the famous artists-brothers Cosmas Damian Asam and Egid Qurin Asam. Built from 1733 to 1746, it ranks among the finest Rococo style churches in the world. The interior is ornamented with a splendid fresco painting on the life of St.Nepomuk. Beside the church the home of E.Q.Asam.

His house is connected to the chapel by a corridor and he could see the high altar from his bedroom window

The ceiling fresco "Life of Saint Nepomuk" is

considered one of the masterpieces

by Cosmas Damian Asam

Occupying a slim space between two houses, the church is small and narrow in shape, with just 12 rows of pews

Cosmas Damian Asam

The ceiling fresco Life of Saint

Nepomuk

Asam designed the church as Beichtkirche (confession church) for the youthSo the small church has seven confessionals with allegorical scenes

Hi autem in vitam aeternam

(for them eternal life)

Confessional box decoration

Mors peccatorum pessima

(the death of sinners is the

worst)

Confessional box details

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Confessional box details

The high altar features twisted columns and a wax effigy of St. John Nepomuk in a glass sarcophagus, topped with a tabernacle by Roman Anton Boos

There is also a sculpture group of the Holy Trinity and medallions of the Asam brothers. A niche to the left of the altar contains a Virgin Mary by E.Q. Asam

Asamkirche nave Josephsaltar

Josephs altar

Virgin Mary altar

The chapel's dimly lit interior, consisting of a single narrow nave, leaves no surface undecorated

Because the church was build on a central location

within an urban area, with constricted space, its size is

very compact, only 22m x 8m, on two

floors

Tabernacle by Roman Anton Boos

Tabernacle by Roman Anton Boos and medallions of the Asam brothers

Below the tabernacle, a relic of John of Nepomuk is kept. Two angels, sculpted by Ignaz Günther, flank the gallery altar and were added at a later date

Multiple frescoes are surrounded

by rich red stucco by the Asam brothers and

gilded woodwork

The high altar of the Asam Church is framed by four spiral columns

At the high altar, these four columns are used as a reference to the four-Bernini columns over the grave of St. Peter in St. Peter's in Rome

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