In Bavaria in 1770, despite the prince elector Maximilian III Joseph’s efforts to reform the building of parish churches by order of a more noble simplicity, the powerful tradition of the ornamental Rococo style, seen in the parish church of Wessobrunn, still won through. Only in the Benedictine abbey church of Ettal a completely different situation occurs: a hard but impressive contrast is found between the older style seen in the huge main rotunda, and in contrast, the classicising Louis XVI decoration inside the smaller rotunda of the choir. Comparable simultaneity of pure and mixed styles is seen in neighbouring Tyrol or in Hungary.