St. Ignatius's

St. Ignatius's Church is located just off Kapuzinerstrasse and its low, old-style buildings. The building has an impressive red sandstone facade (similar to that of St. Gervais in Paris). It has large sculpted adornments and a garden for the priests, but no tower. The church dates back to 1297, and was reconstructed by Johann Peter Jäger between 1763 and 1774. The Ignatius quarter was named after this church.

The style of its construction is considered to be classicist and is more modern than St. Augustine's Church, which was built later. The development from the rococo style to the classicist can be followed in the restored interior whose contents range from luxuriant stucco works and puttos to the already worn altars. This church was also originally painted by Johann Baptist Enderle. A wooden statue (approx. 1750) of the patron saint, St. Ignatius of Antioch, watches over the entrance. The large crucifixion group outside the church was sculpted by Hans Backoffen, who belonged to the parochial church council, and was buried together with his wife in St. Ignatius's Church.

For the last few years, only copies of this sculpture and of the artist's wooden cross in the garden are to be seen in the church, the originals are kept in the Cathedral Museum. The cruciform crypt with 198 tombs from the period 1764-1803 has been restored. The architects, stucco workers, and carpenters who once worked on St. Ignatius's Church are buried side by side with the priests in this crypt.