ABSTRACT
We start from some observations made during an intensive inspection of the southern Bavarian pilgrimage church of Tuntenhausen, some 30 km south-east of Munich. The church was erected in 1628, during the ThirtyYears War. It replaced an older, gothic church, of which only the tower in the west is persisting – a strange twin tower, consisting of two towers built wall-to-wall. The church is one of the earliest “baroque” churches in the area. However, its layout resembles very much the layout of a gothic church. The church has three parallel naves with three bays. The main nave is in fact somewhat higher than the aisles, but the whole keeps the general impression of a “hall” church with three naves of roughly equal height (cf. Fig. 1). The main arches of the church are supported by two pairs of slender pillars. In the east, the church features a chancel with an ambulatory, encircling the partly preserved old gothic polygonal apse with the principal altar.
