Ascension Day (Freising)

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Ascension Church and new parish hall (2018)
Ascension Church - demolition of the old parish hall

The parish church of Ascension Day is the Evangelical Lutheran parish and deanery church of Freising in Upper Bavaria . In its present form, it was built in 1951/52 according to plans by the Günzburg architect Julius Ott . It replaced a previous building that was destroyed in an air raid on April 18, 1945. The consecration of the church took place on May 22, 1952. It has also been the deanery church since 1998, when the Freising deanery was newly created. The interior renovation in 2014 gave it a modern interior. The parish hall, which has been under construction since 2016, will add a modern parish center to the Ascension Church, which will also accommodate the deanery.

history

The first Protestants came to the city only with the secularization of 1803 and the dissolution of the Hochstift Freising . At the beginning of the 19th century, the Bavarian King Maximilian I targeted Protestant immigrants from the areas newly added to Bavaria in Swabia , Franconia and the Palatinate to cultivate the moss landscape north of Munich . The Protestant community experienced further growth through the stationing of a garrison in the Neustift district .

On October 21, 1849, the travel preacher Friedrich Emanuel Popp from Munich held the first Protestant service in the small town hall. With the help of donations, a neo-Gothic church was built in the southern suburb in 1864 . Its consecration took place on September 4, 1864.

This building was completely destroyed in a bombing raid on the area around the station on April 18, 1945. A memorial stone in front of today's building commemorates this day. After the end of the Second World War , the Catholic parish gave the parish the church church for its services .

Today's construction

The interior after the renovation, photo 2017

The Ascension Church was not rebuilt until 1951/52. It was built as a simple hall church according to the circumstances. The unadorned interior is only adorned behind the altar by the panel painting Descent from the Cross by the Augsburg painter Jörg Breu from the 16th century. In 2004 a 26 meter high tower was added to the south-eastern side of the nave. Four bells hang in it, which are inscribed on an outside plaque.

Bells

  • Our father's bell (donated by the Lions Club Freising) - tone a1, diameter 970 mm, 548 kg
  • Prayer and blessing bell (donated by the Rotary Club Freising) - tone c2, diameter 830 mm, 412 kg
  • Christening bell (donated by Sparkassenstiftung Freising) - tone d2, diameter 743 mm, 249 kg
  • Peace bell (donated by Protestant members of the US military community Freising 1953) - tone f2, 533 mm, 85 kg

The first three bells were cast in 2002 by Rudolf Perner , Passau, the peace bell comes from Karl Czudnochowsky , Erding.

Renovation 2013/14

The interior renovation, which strengthened the statics and a new solid stone church floor, resulted in a completely new interior of the church. The wooden gallery was painted white and the choir was completely redesigned by Werner Mally. The font was moved to the central axis of the nave. The altar, the lectern and the pulpit are made of oak. Instead of the panel painting, an installation called “Autopoiesis” adorns the choir.

New evangelical parish hall 2018

In 2013, the rectory and the parish hall next to the church were irreparably damaged by a flood. After the old buildings were demolished in autumn 2016, a new “Evangelical Community Hall of Christ Ascension” with rooms for congregations and offices (deanery and parish office) was built at the end of 2016. The groundbreaking ceremony for the new building took place after Easter 2017. It was completed in autumn 2018 and inaugurated on December 8, 2018 by Regional Bishop Breit-Keßler .

  • Choir after the renovation

  • New equipment of the choir

  • View of the organ gallery after the renovation

  • 72nd return of the church destruction in 1945

  • Board on the tower with information about the bells

  • Construction site for the "parish hall"

  • Church and new parish hall (2018)

  • Connecting corridor from the north

  • Link to the new parish hall

organ

Organ, before the interior renovation, with an unpainted gallery

The organ was built in 1953 by Paul Ott . The slider chests -instrument has 23 registers on two manuals and pedal . The actions are mechanical.

I Hauptwerk C – f '' '
1. Quintad 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Reed flute 8th'
4th octave 4 ′
5. Dumped 4 ′
6th Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
7th Forest flute 2 ′
8th. Mixture IV-V 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
9. Trumpet 8th'
II positive C – f '' '
10. Dumped 8th'
11. Principal 4 ′
12. recorder 4 ′
13. octave 2 ′
14th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
15th Sesquialter II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
16. Sharp IV – V
17th Dulcian 8th'
Tremulant
Pedals C-f '
18th Sub bass 16 ′
19th octave 8th'
20th octave 4 ′
21st Rauschpfeife V
22nd trombone 16 ′
23. Trumpet 8th'

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Braun, Florian Notter: Evangelical Lutheran Ascension Church in Freising. Lindenberg (Kunstverlag Josef Fink) 2015. ISBN 978-3-89870-901-9
  2. ↑ To the disposition

Web links

Commons : Ascension Day  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 23 ′ 43.9 ″  N , 11 ° 44 ′ 31.3 ″  E