Mariä Geburt
Former abbey church whose Gothic shell hides a dazzling Rococo interior of stucco and frescoes.
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This guide to the church of Mariä Geburt in Rottenbuch, near Füssen, follows the Augustinian provosts who set out in the seventeen-thirties to turn their Gothic abbey church into a Rococo showpiece, and the Wessobrunn stuccoist and Augsburg painter they hired. It then moves to eighteen oh three, when the Bavarian minister Montgelas turned his attention to Bavaria's monasteries. Best heard standing in the middle of the nave, looking up.
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