Court Church

The Hofkirche Court Church is a Gothic church positioned inside the Altstadt phase of Innsbruck, Austria. The church become constructed in 1553 via Emperor Ferdinand I 1503 to 1564 as a memorial to his grandfather Emperor Maximilian I 1459 to 1519,whose cenotaph within boasts a high-quality series of German Renaissance sculpture. The church also carries the tomb of Andreas Hofer, Tyrol's countrywide hero. Although Maximilian's will had directed that he be buried inside the fortress chapel in Wiener Neustadt, it proved impractical to construct there the massive memorial whose plans he had supervised in detail,

and Ferdinand I as executor planned construction of a brand new church and monastery in Innsbruck for a appropriate memorial. In the end, however, Maximilian's simple tomb remained in Wiener Neustadt and the Hofkirche serves as a cenotaph. The Hofkirche is located at Universitatsstrasse 2, adjacent to the Hofburg inside the Altstadt segment of Innsbruck.