Munich - St George Church

(Local Name: St Georg) St George Church in Munich, picturesquely situated on the right bank of the Isar, was built in 1766-68 by Johann Michael Fischer. The choir however is Late Gothic - a survival from an earlier, originally Romanesque, church.

The theatrical high altar, with figures of St George on Horseback, St Donatus and St Irene, was the work of Johann Baptist Straub. The pulpit and the right-hand side altar, with a figure of St Corbinian in the center, are by Ignaz Günther; the left-hand side altar, with a Virgin enthroned (ca. 1628) is by unknown artists. There are notable ceiling-paintings in the chancel and at the east end of the nave (by Helterhof, 1770), "St George Received in Heaven" and