The Heilig-Geist-Kirche is a Catholic church at Prälat-Miller-Weg 1 in Munich. It was built in the fourteenth century as a Gothic hall church, part of the Hospice of the Holy Ghost. From 1724 to 1730 Johann Georg Ettenhofer remodeled it, working on the vaults and pillars, and the tower was built in 1730 with a lantern dome of typical Munich form. In 1885 the hospice buildings were demolished, and Franz Löwel added three bays at the west end and a Neo-Baroque facade. Only the choir buttresses and the north nave wall survive from the Gothic church.
The interior has Rococo frescoes and stucco by the Asam brothers. A high altar by Nikolaus Stuber dates from 1730.
The Second World War severely damaged the church. It was rebuilt in the 1950s, and in the late 1960s the architect Erwin Schleich recreated the original frescoes and Rococo ornament.
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