Travelers in the alpine foothills of Upper Bavaria south of Munich encounter a countryside dotted with onion-domed churches. Many of them are of considerable antiquity, though their interiors, along with the onion domes themselves, are often the result of early 18th-century Baroque changes. Those interior alterations raised wedding-cake plaster exuberances to a dominant architectural theme, covering and obscuring much more austere original structures. (The concussive shockwaves of Allied bombing Read more [...]