St. Peter and Paul, Rococo parish church in Neustift, Freising, Germany.
St. Peter and Paul is the former Premonstratensian monastery church in Freising's Neustift district, consecrated in 1756. The Rococo interior has frescoes of St. Norbert's life by Johann Baptist Zimmermann and stucco by Franz Xaver Feichtmayr. Ignaz Günther carved the high altar and choir stalls in 1765.
Bishop Otto the Great founded the Premonstratensian monastery of Neustift on the Moosach in 1142, and the monastery church of Peter and Paul was consecrated in 1143. Swedish troops destroyed the old monastery in 1634, and a Baroque church built between 1700 and 1722 burned down in 1751. The present Rococo church was consecrated in 1756 under Abbot Ascanius Hainbogen, and the monastery was secularized in 1803, after which the church became a parish church.
The church shows features of traditional Upper Bavarian building style with its characteristic tower and regional decoration patterns. Visitors see here how houses of worship were designed in this area.
The church is accessible on foot through Neustift and visible from outside at all times. The interior can be visited during services or at set opening hours, so checking current access beforehand is worthwhile.
The church holds the grave of the Irish wandering monks Declanus and Marinus from the 8th century, a pilgrimage site that faded after Swedish troops destroyed the old monastery in 1634. A late Gothic panel painting in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum is the only surviving testimony to that pilgrimage.
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