A church stood on the site by 715, and Boniface made it the episcopal church in 739. Fires destroyed earlier buildings in 903 and on April 5, 1159. The current Romanesque basilica was begun in 1159 and completed in 1205. A Gothic vault replaced the Romanesque wooden ceiling between 1481 and 1483.
The Baroque reconstruction began in 1619, and the high altar was consecrated on January 1, 1624. The Asam brothers, Cosmas Damian and Egid Quirin, carried out the rococo interior renovation of 1724. The four-nave crypt holds the tomb of St. Corbinian.
Rubens's Woman of the Apocalypse once stood as the altarpiece, though the attribution is uncertain, and it is now in Munich. Pope Benedict XVI was ordained a priest here. It is a co-cathedral of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising.
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