Heilig-Geist-Spitalkirche
Rococo hospital church with a fully painted facade of saints, rebuilt after a devastating fire.
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This guide to the Heilig-Geist-Spitalkirche in Füssen starts with the painter Joseph Anton Walch at work on its street front in the mid-eighteenth century. It reaches back to a burgher couple who paid for a hospital here in the fourteen hundreds, and to the fire that changed this corner. Stand across Spitalgasse, where you can take in the whole painted facade at once.
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