St. Peter's Church (Alter Peter)
Munich's oldest parish church stands on the hill where the city itself was born — before the city existed.
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Eighth-century monks lived on Petersbergl around this church centuries before Munich's 1158 founding. A 1327 fire levelled it; WWII bombing damaged it again. What survives is a layered interior: Gothic structure, a Renaissance steeple top added in the early 17th century, Baroque choir, and frescoes restored after the war.
What to look for
- Erasmus Grasser's carved figure of Saint Peter on the high altar
- Five Gothic paintings by Jan Polack
- Johann Baptist Zimmermann's ceiling fresco (1753–56), restored 1999–2000
The 91-metre tower — called "Alter Peter" by locals — offers a 360-degree view over Munich's old city centre.
St. Peter's Church (Alter Peter) is one of 37 sights worth the detour in Munich, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the Munich pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in Munich
- Allianz ArenaThe world's first stadium with a full color-changing exterior — 75,000 seats wrapped in inflated ETFE plastic panels that can change color across the entire facade.
- Deutsches Museum125,000 objects across 50 fields of science and technology — all on a former coal island in the Isar.
- Nymphenburg PalaceAt 632 metres across, this Baroque summer palace is wider than Versailles — and it started as a birth announcement.
- Alte PinakothekThe gallery that taught Europe how to build a museum — then filled it with five centuries of Old Masters.
- FrauenkircheThe twin towers top out at just over 98 meters — Munich caps the entire city at 99 m, so nothing can overtake them on the skyline.
- Englischer GartenA Massachusetts-born American Loyalist, fleeing Britain after the Revolution, drew up plans for what became one of the world's largest urban parks.