Hofkirche, Innsbruck

This court church in Innsbruck was built in the sixteenth century to hold the great cenotaph of Emperor Maximilian I, one of the most ambitious tomb monuments of the Renaissance. Around the empty marble sarcophagus stand twenty-eight larger-than-life bronze figures of the emperor's ancestors and heroes, cast so darkly that they are known as the black men. The church also holds the tomb of the Tyrolean freedom fighter Andreas Hofer and a fine Renaissance organ. It adjoins the folk art museum in the same complex.