Predecessor building, view from the north, steel engraving by Johann Poppel, around 1850.
The Lutheran parish church of St. Matthew, called Matthäuskirche, was the first Protestant church in Munich. The first building seen here, erected from 1827 to 1833, was a post-classical rotunda. The church was located at Karlsplatz (Stachus) at the height of Schwanthalerstraße corner Herzogspitalstraße.