Church
Spitalskirche zum Heiligen Geist
Baroque parish church fronting a medieval city hospital that once sheltered Innsbruck's sick, poor and dying.
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This guide to the Spitalskirche zum Heiligen Geist in Innsbruck looks past its cheerful Baroque facade to the medieval city hospital it once fronted, founded by Duke Henry of Carinthia in the early thirteen hundreds. It traces how the wealthy and the poor were cared for on very different terms, and how a single well and open cesspits shaped daily life for the sick and dying. You will also hear how an earthquake forced the building to be rebuilt from its foundations. Look up at the inscription over the entrance before you step inside.
This audio guide was created using AI.