Court Church Innsbruck

Why go

The Tyrolean State Museums, which run the Court Church as one of their houses, say Emperor Maximilian I's tomb is surrounded by 28 larger-than-life bronze statues, known locally as the 'Black Men' although eight of them are women, representing his relatives, ancestors and role models; Maximilian himself is shown kneeling before the altar. They name Albrecht Dürer, Peter Vischer the Elder and Alexander Colin among the artists who worked on it, and point to the grilles, stone reliefs, the Prince's Choir and the Ebert organ, more than 450 years old. Their visitor information says the church is entered through the adjoining Museum of Tyrolean Folk Art (the museums' English name for it is Museum of Tyrolean Regional Heritage), and the two share house rules. This record is the church at Universitätsstraße 2, not the Silver Chapel and not the other churches called Hofkirche elsewhere.