St. Boniface Abbey (Munich)

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St. Boniface Abbey Church
Interior before 1944
Interior Easter 2012
The entrance to the monastery

The St. Bonifaz Abbey is a Benedictine abbey in Munich and belongs to the Bavarian Benedictine Congregation and is located in the Munich art area .

history

The monastery was founded in 1835 by the Bavarian King Ludwig I , who wanted to revive the tradition of spiritual life by setting up new monasteries. In 1850 the monastery, designed by the architect Georg Friedrich Ziebland , was ceremoniously inaugurated. The entrance to the church served as a model for Leo von Klenze for the design of the Cathedral of St. Dionysius Areopagita in Athens.

During the Second World War , on April 25, 1944 and January 7, 1945, the monastery, located in the immediate vicinity south of Königsplatz , was badly damaged and only partially rebuilt later. The Catholic university community of the Technical University of Munich was housed on the grounds of St. Bonifaz in the 1990s .

St. Boniface is in the city, which is unusual for a Benedictine monastery. In order to provide the monks with material supplies, Ludwig I bought the Andechs monastery, which had been secularized in 1803, including the associated agricultural land, and donated it to the abbey. The Andechs Monastery is now part of the Saint Boniface Abbey.

The monks work in pastoral care in the parish, scientific and educational work, as well as caring for the homeless . The monastery library with a focus on monasticism and theology is one of the largest academic private libraries in Bavaria. The "Haneberghaus" was opened on the monastery grounds in 2001 and is used to help the homeless. The abbot is Johannes Eckert , who was elected on July 23, 2003 by the monks of the convent to succeed the long-serving abbot Odilo Lechner .

The sarcophagi of Ludwig I and his wife, Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen, stand in the right aisle of St. Boniface's Basilica .

A competition announced in 1988 enabled the basilica to be artistically designed in the years 1993–1996. The painter Peter Burkart created a frieze of colored panels above the arcades, Friedrich Koller created the relief of the inner portal with the motif of the end times speech from the Gospel according to Matthew . In the left (western) aisle hangs a 15-part sequence of the Stations of the Cross (colored prints by Bernd Hendl, 2015–2017). In front of it stands a saint Elisabeth by Christine Stadler .

After only the bare minimum had been repaired on the monastery building for decades, extensive renovation work began there in spring 2018. A guest wing will also be created.

Abbots

Well-known members of the Convention

organ

The organ of St. Bonifaz was built in 1976/1977 by the organ building company Manufacture d'Orgues Muhleisen ( Strasbourg ). The instrument has 51 registers and is on the ground floor behind the altar. The disposition is based on the French symphonic organ building of the 19th and 20th centuries; A special feature are the two tongue registers Vox humana 8 'and Cromorne 8', the lengths of which are designed according to Andreas Silbermann . In 2011 the register action / registration system was renewed by Orgelbau Kaps ( Eichenau ).

I Grand Orgue C-g 3
1. Harp principal 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Coupling flute 8th'
4th Great fifth 5 1 ⁄ 3  ′
5. Principal 4 ′
6th Pointed flute 4 ′
7th Major third 3 1 ⁄ 5  ′
8th. octave 2 ′
9. Cornet V (from c 1 ) 8th'
10. Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
11. Zymbel III 2 ⁄ 3 ′
12. Trumpet 8th'
13. Vox humana 8th'
Tremulant
II Récit C – g 3
14th Bourdon 16 ′
15th Principal 8th'
16. Flute harmonique 8th'
17th Gemshorn 8th'
18th Vox coelestis (from c 0 ) 8th'
19th Principal 4 ′
20th Hollow flute 4 ′
21st Nazard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
22nd Transverse flute 2 ′
23. third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
24. Super octave 1'
25th Mixture III-IV 2 ′
26th bassoon 16 ′
27. Trompette harmonique 8th'
28. oboe 8th'
29 Clairon 4 ′
Tremulant
III positive C-g 3
30th Covered 8th'
31. Quintviola 8th'
32. Principal 4 ′
33. Reed flute 4 ′
34. Nazard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
35. third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
36. Schwiegel 2 ′
37. Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
38. None 4 ⁄ 9 ′
39. Zimbel III 1'
40. Cromorne 8th'
Tremulant
Pedale C – f 1
41. Principal 16 ′
42. Sub-bass 16 ′
43. Fifth 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′
44. Octave bass 8th'
45. Tube bare 8th'
46. Chorale bass 4 ′
47. Night horn 2 ′
48. Mixture IV 4 ′
49. Bombard 16 ′
50. Trumpet 8th'
51. Clairon 4 ′

literature

  • Brigitta Klemenz (Ed.): Living stones. St. Boniface in Munich, 150 years of Benedictine abbey and parish; an exhibition by the Benedictine Abbey of St. Boniface Munich and Andechs and the Bavarian Main State Archives on the 150th anniversary of the foundation by King Ludwig I .; Munich, November 17, 2000 to January 14, 2001 . Archive of the St. Bonifaz Abbey, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-921635-60-8 (exhibition catalogs of the Bavarian State Archives; 42).
  • Odilo Lechner : Pictures as a guide - reflections on the imagery of the St. Boniface Basilica in Munich , Kunstverlag Josef Fink , Lindenberg im Allgäu 2014, ISBN 978-3-89870-886-9 .

Web links

Commons : Abtei St. Bonifaz (Munich)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Library
  2. ↑ Do not make any regulations, but open doors. Homeless Aid St. Bonifaz in the Haneberghaus, accessed on July 19, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Odilo Lechner : Pictures as a guide - reflections on the imagery of the St. Boniface Basilica in Munich , Kunstverlag Josef Fink , Lindenberg im Allgäu 2014, ISBN 978-3-89870-886-9 .
  4. ↑ Anna Hoben: St. Boniface is being renovated. Praying and building work. In: www.sueddeutsche.de. May 4, 2018, Retrieved May 4, 2018 .
  5. ^ Orgelbau Kaps: References, entry under 2011. Accessed on November 7, 2018.

Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 38.1 ″  N , 11 ° 33 ′ 50.2 ″  E