Christ Church (Munich-Neuhausen-Nymphenburg)

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Christ Church

The Christ Church in Munich is a parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria . With almost 9,000 members, it is the largest Protestant parish in Munich and, together with the Stephanuskirche and numerous diaconal institutions, shapes the Protestant life in the Neuhausen-Nymphenburg district .

The community works beyond its own borders through regular concerts and musicals, organized by six different choirs (from the large choir with around a hundred singers to the children's choir of the church sparrows ). The cross-over work Rock Requiem was also written here in 1978 . The fool's sermon on Shrove Sunday has been a tradition since 2000.

The Christ Church Foundation, founded in 2007, is helping to preserve the building .

Church building

The Evangelical Lutheran Christ Church is a neo-Gothic church built between 1899 and 1901 and is under monument protection (monument list no. D-1-62-000-1313) in the Neuhausen-Nymphenburg district of the Bavarian capital of Munich . It is located at Dom-Pedro-Platz 4. The Vice Dean's Office Munich-West has its seat in the neighboring rectory at Dom-Pedro-Platz 5, the nursery run by the parish is at Dom-Pedro-Platz 3.

The last Bavarian regional synod during the Third Reich met on August 23, 1934 in the parish hall with a large hall (Braganzastraße 11), which was completed in 1926 .

Building history

The construction took place in the years 1899 to 1900 by the construction company Heilmann & Littmann according to plans by the architect Erich Göbel in the neo-Gothic style. In 1944 the church was badly damaged and was restored in a simplified manner by around 1953 according to plans by the architect Bruno Biehler . In particular, the pointed tower was given a simpler finish and the large window on the west facade, donated by Prince Regent Luitpold (by Franz Xaver Zettler ), was not restored. During the reconstruction, the church received a flat coffered ceiling. In 1962 a new pulpit and a new altar were built. Far-reaching interventions took place in 1975 when a side room separated by a 1.50 m high wall was arranged in the choir. In 1999 the church was renovated.

Building design

The west facade of the east-facing church opens onto the green area of ​​Dom-Pedro-Platz. The tower is in the southwest corner. A neo-Gothic portico stands in front of the west facade with a rose window in the upper area.

Furnishing

Tympanum

Above the portal, a tympanum created by the sculptor Ernst Pfeifer in 1908 shows the risen Christ.

The tower, which is lower than in the original building, is crowned by a weather vane depicting a trumpet angel.

The chimes were removed in the two world wars and replaced by new bells in 1955 (tuning of the four bells: c sharp-e-f sharp-a).

The altar cross was designed by Anne von Miller-Schütz in 1962 and has been erected as a standing cross since 1975.

The choir windows introduced in 1962 were made by Helmut Ammann .

organ

organ

Instead of the Steinmeyer organ from 1940, which was destroyed in a bomb attack in 1944 , a Rieger organ with around 4,000 pipes, 46 registers and three manuals was created in 1966 and renovated in 2001. The instrument has the following disposition :

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
Pointed 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Reed flute 8th'
Octave 4 ′
Pointed flute 4 ′
Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Octave 2 ′
3rd septa II 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′ + 8 ⁄ 15 ′
Mixture VI 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Buntcymbel IV
bassoon 16 ′
Spanish trumpet 8th'
II Rückpositiv C – g 3
Dacked copper 8th'
Quintad 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Coupling flute 4 ′
Gemshorn 2 ′
Quintlet 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Sesquialtera II
Scharff IV 1'
Krummhorn 8th'
Tremulant
III breastwork
(in swell box) C – g 3
Wooden dacked 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Pointed Gamba 4 ′
Night horn 2 ′
third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Octave 1'
Carillon IV 1'
Cymbel III 1 ⁄ 3 ′
Bear whistle 16 ′
Trumpet 8th'
musette 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
Principal 16 ′
Sub-bass 16 ′
Nasat 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Octave 8th'
Capstan flute 8th'
Night horn 4 ′
Pommer 2 ′
Bass Zinc IV 5 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Choral bass III 4 ′
Bell tone IV 2 ′
Bombard 16 ′
trombone 8th'
Clairon 4 ′
Tremulant

literature

  • Georg Brenninger: Organs in Old Bavaria. 2. revised u. exp. Edition. Bruckmann, Munich 1982.
  • Helmuth Stahleder : Church in the suburb. The Protestant Christ Church and the Munich district of Neuhausen around 1900. Buchendorfer Verlag 2001.
  • New views of the stained glass windows by Helmut Ammann in the Christ Church in Munich-Neuhausen. With photos by Isabella Krobisch. Published by the Christ Church Foundation Munich, Munich 2015.
  • Christoph Lindenmeyer: The pear tree in the parish garden. A Protestant community under National Socialism. Verlag Anton Pustet, Salzburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-7025-0954-5 .

Web links

Commons : Christ Church  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Homepage of the community
  2. ^ Concerts and choirs
  3. ↑ Text examples from the sermons of fools
  4. ^ Foundation projects
  5. ↑ Rieger organ . evnn.de. Retrieved February 4, 2020.
  6. ↑ Disposition of the organ

Coordinates: 48 ° 9 ′ 36.5 ″  N , 11 ° 32 ′ 3.9 ″  E