Zu den heiligen zwölf Aposteln, Modern parish church in Laim, Germany.
Zu den heiligen zwölf Aposteln is a parish church in Munich's Laim district with white plastered brick walls, a semicircular apse, and a tower holding three bells. The building houses a 38-register organ built by Karl Schuke Berlin and serves as the religious center for the local community.
A wooden emergency church served the parish from 1928 east of today's Siglstraße. A 1936 competition for a permanent building was blocked by the Nazi-era building authority. After a second competition in 1951, Munich architect Sep Ruf won the commission; the church was consecrated on 9 November 1953 by Cardinal Joseph Wendel. It became a city parish in 1945.
The apse holds a large-format relief by Karl Knappe and two monumental paintings by Jakob Kuffner executed in graffito-fresco technique. These works are the church's main visual focus. The three bells, cast by Rudolf Perner, are named Apostel (g1), Patrona Bavariæ (b1) and Armeseelen (c2); on Saturdays at 3 PM all ring to mark the start of Sunday.
The church stands between Schrobenhausener Straße and Siglstraße, with the Pfarrer-Endres-Weg bounding the grounds to the south; the bell tower is north of the nave and the parish house with kindergarten lies south around a rectangular courtyard. The three bells of Rudolf Perner are rung in full on Saturdays at 3 PM to usher in Sunday, and bell 2 sounds for the Angelus and at the close of the evening rosary, followed by bell 3 in memory of the dead.
The church is the first building Sep Ruf ever designed as a church, and the Volksschule on Schrobenhausener Straße just south of it is also his work. The tower's steel bell frame was built to hold more bells than the three cast by Rudolf Perner that hang there today.
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