Maria vom Guten Rat, Catholic church in Munich, Germany
Maria vom Guten Rat is a Catholic parish church on Hörwarthstraße in Schwabing, built in 1956–57 to a design by Josef Wiedemann. Its red brick facade has a shallow gabled roofline, a large circular window with radiating stone mullions, and a projecting gabled entrance with dark double doors. A freestanding brick bell tower holds four bronze bells cast by Otto in 1960.
In 1948 Archbishop Michael Cardinal von Faulhaber brought the Augustinian Hermits to Munich for the Maria Eich pilgrimage and pastoral care. The archdiocese bought land on Hörwarthstraße in 1953, and architect Josef Wiedemann built the church in 1956–1957; Cardinal Joseph Wendel consecrated it in 1957. The Augustinians served the parish until 1994, and the church was listed as a Bavarian monument in 2000.
Since 2014 Maria vom Guten Rat has formed the parish association "Am Luitpoldpark" with St. Sebastian, whose church hosted the founding service in December 2014, celebrated by Bishop's vicar Rupert Graf zu Stolberg-Stolberg. The Augustinian Hermits, brought to Munich in 1948 by Cardinal Faulhaber, ran the parish until 1994; diocesan priests of the Emmanuel Community then served it from 1999 to 2013.
The church is accessible to visitors during service times and can be easily reached on foot from the city center. Information about current schedules can be obtained from the local parish.
The free-standing tower is essentially a bell carrier: four bronze bells cast in 1960 by the Otto foundry in Bremen-Hemelingen hang there in a steel frame, tuned to d1, f1, g1 and a1. Their arrangement was deliberately matched to the bells of the nearby Erlöserkirche.
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