Christ the King (Penzberg)

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Church of Christ the King from the south

The Christ the King Church in Penzberg in the Upper Bavarian district of Weilheim-Schongau is the Catholic parish church of the Christ the King parish in the diocese of Augsburg . The feast of the patronage is the catholic solemn festival of Christ the King .

history

Barbarakirche, 1892

The predecessor of the Christ the King's Church, the neo-Gothic St. Barbara Church, built in 1890 , was largely destroyed in a bombing raid on November 16, 1944 during the Second World War . An emergency church was added to the choir that had remained standing . Promoted by donations and a church building association, construction of the new Christ the King's Church began in 1949 according to plans by Michael Steinbrecher , which was inaugurated on October 7, 1951 by Bishop Joseph Freundorfer . It was one of the first new church buildings in the diocese of Augsburg after the war. The fact that the Penzberg parish church was no longer consecrated to the patron saint of miners Barbara , but to Christ, the King of the Universe , is due to the fact that the worship of Christ the King as a religious counterbalance to the ideology of National Socialism already increased significantly during the Nazi era . In the years after the inauguration, the church tower, the tower clock, bells and the organ as well as the interior of the church were completed.

architecture

  • Choir area with representation of Christ the King

  • Organ on the gallery

  • Marien Altar in the right aisle

  • Christ the King altar in the left aisle

The architecture of the church is reminiscent of a Romanesque basilica . In contrast to the neo-Gothic predecessor building, the sacred building faces south-west. The spacious nave of the hall church has narrow aisles and is covered with a slightly sloping roof. The rectangular choir, the width of the central nave , is illuminated by three round windows each on the left and right and is aligned with the 4.5 meter high gilded Christ the King representation behind the high altar. The campanile- like, square tower consists of six floors and stands at the northeast corner of the church. In it is the six-part bell. It is crowned by a five meter high cross, which rises in the center of an indicated crown of rays. In 1997, a copy of Heinrich Campendonk's Passion Window was installed in the Passion Chapel of the parish church . The original received an award at the 1937 World Exhibition in Paris . An original Campendonk window was installed in the summer of 2005.

Web links

Commons : Christkönig (Penzberg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Diocese of Augsburg
  2. ↑ The parish in the Nazi era. In: pg-penzberg.de. 1999, accessed June 20, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Karl Luberger: history of the city Penzberg . Ed .: City of Penzberg. 1969, Catholic Parish, p. 97-104 .
  4. ↑ List of monuments for Penzberg (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation. Retrieved June 20, 2016.
  5. ^ Georg Impler: Penzberg in Upper Bavaria . In: Zwölfuhrluten . July 24, 2011, accessed July 11, 2016.
  6. ^ Siegfried Schramm: Heimatbuch for the district of Weilheim (= Bavarian home books. No. 1). Verlag H. Aigner, Munich 1958, p. 14.
  7. ^ Campendonk in Penzberg. (No longer available online.) In: pfaffen-winkel.de. Archived from the original on June 20, 2016 ; Retrieved June 20, 2016 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 45 ′ 10.8 "  N , 11 ° 22 ′ 37.1"  E