Old St. George's Church (Milbertshofen)
St. Georg is a Gothic church building on Alten St.-Georgs-Platz in the Milbertshofen district of Munich . The church was destroyed in World War II; Today only the tower and the remains of the choir , which were converted into a chapel, are preserved. The most important piece of equipment is a winged altar from 1510.
history
Today's Milbertshofen district emerged from a Schwaige that had already existed for several centuries from 1800 . A previous building of the church as part of the manor was first mentioned in 1360. For the building, the remains of which are still preserved today, 1507 is given as the year of origin, although it is not known whether - and if so, which - parts of the previous building were taken over, making it the oldest surviving structure in the district. At that time Milbertshofen belonged to the Schäftlarn monastery ; Abbot there was Leonhard II. Schmid. The church was largely destroyed in the Second World War. Remnants of the choir were converted into a chapel with a hipped roof in 1950 . In the 1970s, plans for rebuilding were made, but so far only the tower has been restored to its original state in 1997. The old St. George's Church in Milbertshofen is dedicated to the preservation and care of the old St. George's Church , and is committed to the reconstruction of the nave.
Buildings and equipment
The nave was single-nave, covered with wooden beams, and the entrance was formed by a vestibule to the south. The walls of the church were adorned with Renaissance frescoes by Thomas Zehentmayer , a student of Hans Mielich , which had been painted over for a long time, but were only exposed in the 1930s.
The nave was destroyed in a bomb attack in 1944. The strongly recessed, rectangular chancel had a groin vault , of which only remains on the walls of today's chapel are preserved. A sacristy was added to the choir . The nave, choir, tower and sacristy had gable roofs . The windows of the church were ogival, the choir had one on the south and one on the east side; the transition from the nave to the choir also consisted of a pointed arch.
Together with the church, the simple stalls, the octagonal pulpit and the two neo-Gothic side altars from the 19th century in honor of Our Lady and St. Andrew were lost. What has been preserved, however, is a late Gothic tabernacle in the former choir and the most important piece of equipment, a winged altar dated around 1510, which was moved to the Bavarian National Museum during the war . Also preserved are three reliquaries, gifts from the Schäftlarn abbot Leonhard III.
Winged altar
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The winged altar is dated to the year 1510 and is attributed to an unknown master from the circle of Erasmus Grasser and Jan Polack .
Its structure follows the classic structure of predella , central shrine , wings and cracks . When closed, the altar shows its weekday side. On the left wing is the fight of Saint George with the dragon, on the right the wheels as part of his martyrdom. If the wings are open, as planned for Sundays and festive days, the shrine shows another - this time plastic - representation of the dragon fight, on the inside of the wings the two other parts of the martyrdom of St. George, on the left the quartering and on the right the decapitation. The depiction follows the tradition of the 15th century with a clear, detailed imagery including contemporary clothing and weapons.
The altar has been restored and conserved many times over the years, for example from 1866 to 1877 under Joachim Sighart, then again in 1910, 1917 and 1925 to 1929. After the Second World War, renewed restoration work was carried out in 1969. After Rolf-Gerhard Ernst had carried out an emergency conservation and restoration in 1981, the altar was regularly maintained and conserved by his studio in the 1990s and subjected to an extensive restoration by the same studio from 1996 to 2003, restoring the original version.
Apart from its relocation to the Bavarian National Museum during the war and another relocation to the new St. George's Church in Milbertshofen, the location of the altar was always the old St. George's Church from 1985, in which it has been since 2003 has found its original place again.
literature
- Gabriele Schickel: The two St. Georg churches in Munich-Milbertshofen. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-89870-307-9 .
- Norbert Jocher (Ed.), Alexander Heisig (Red.): Munich-Milbertshofen. Old Georgskirche - winged altar from 1510. (Documentation of the Archbishop's Ordinariate Munich and Freising 2/2003), Archbishop's Art Department, 2003 (with photographs by Wolf-Christian von der Mülbe and Achim Bunz)
- Friends of the Alte St. Georgskirche Milbertshofen e. V. (Ed.): Milbertshofen - a search for traces. For the 500th anniversary of the Old St. George's Church. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2006, ISBN 978-3-89870-381-9 .
Web links
- Old St. George's Church and the Friends' Association . Parish Association Milbertshofen St. Lanpert-St. George.
- Art and history of St. Georg in Milbertshofen . Parish Association Milbertshofen St. Lanpert-St. George. (Chronicle of both Milbertshofener Georgskirchen)
Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 14.7 " N , 11 ° 33 ′ 48.4" E