Heilige Dreifaltigkeit, Catholic church in Nymphenburg-Neuhausen, Munich, Germany
Heilige Dreifaltigkeit is a church and convent of the Congregatio Jesu (English Ladies) on Maria-Ward-Straße in Munich's Nymphenburg district, built 1960–1964 to a design by Josef Wiedemann. The convent complex consists of several buildings around atrium-like enclosed courtyards. The church has a square outer outline, while the interior is round: twelve slender columns carry a concrete ring with a mosaic band, on which rests a twelve-fold folded timber roof resembling a tent, paneled inside with untreated spruce.
The complex was built between 1960 and 1964 to designs by architect Josef Wiedemann for the Congregatio Jesu (Englische Fräulein). Its round church interior anticipated liturgical reforms later endorsed by the Second Vatican Council. Two bells cast in 1696 by Paulus Kopp in Munich came from the order's first house, the Paradeiserhaus at today's Marienhof.
The church holds wood sculptures by Sister Bernardine Weber: a Stations of the Cross, a figure of order founder Maria Ward, and a nativity scene at Christmas. Weber also designed the coloured concrete-glass wall in the sacrament chapel. The two bells, cast in 1696 by Paulus Kopp, came from the order's first house at Marienhof and bear the names Maria-Joseph and Benno-Ignatius.
The church and convent stand on Maria-Ward-Straße in Nymphenburg, at the northern edge of Munich. The complex is a working convent of the Congregatio Jesu, so the church is not a public museum; visits and access to the interior should be arranged with the community in advance. The round interior is entered from the courtyard side.
Two bells from 1696 by founder Paulus Kopp hang here, cast for the order's first Munich house, the Paradeiserhaus at today's Marienhof. One bears the relief of the Holy Family and the name "Maria-Joseph", the other shows St. Ignatius kneeling on a cloud holding a monstrance and is called "Benno-Ignatius". The donor named in the inscription is superior Maria Anna Barbara Babthorpe.
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