Ensemble Oberallershausen

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Evangelical parish church Oberallershausen

The Oberallershausen ensemble in Allershausen , a municipality in the Freising district in Upper Bavaria , was the center of the village new settlement of Oberallershausen, which was founded in 1820 . It is now a listed building, as it is a first-rate historical testimony to how the Protestants gained a foothold in the new state of Bavaria in the 19th century.

history

The Bavarian constitution of 1818 and the religious edict at the same time made it possible for evangelicals to settle in the new state of Bavaria - expanded to include Franconia and Swabia - and thus also in the purely Catholic district of Freising. Between 1820 and 1833, a total of 67 Protestant families from the Palatinate took advantage of the opportunity.

In 1834 the Protestant parish of Oberallershausen was founded, creating the ultimate center for the people of the Palatinate. The inauguration of the Protestant church took place there on May 7, 1837. This makes it one of the oldest Protestant church buildings in the formerly purely Catholic Old Bavaria.

Problems in the coexistence of Protestants and Reformed people

In Oberallershausen in particular, the two evangelical traditions of the Reformed and the Evangelical Lutheran led to repeated disputes until the end of the Second World War. While the Reformed used normal and thus leavened bread, the Lutherans were served (unleavened) wafers as in the Catholic Church. In Oberallershausen "in 1914 173 people attended the Lord's Supper according to Reformed custom and only 78 according to Lutheran custom". The different form of the Lord's Supper persisted until 1947, when it was ordered “that in future too the Lord's Supper will only be celebrated in the Lutheran way”.

description

Protestant Palatinate settlers were called to this part of the country by the Bavarian King Maximilian I , mostly to cultivate peatland . They expected better life chances in the less populated Upper Bavarian area and sold their Palatinate properties in order to dare a new beginning in the Catholic part of Bavaria. King Max was also from the Palatinate and supported their efforts.

The building ensemble comprises an assigned group of three buildings on Johannes-Dannheimer-Straße:

  • the parish church

  • the rectory

  • the former Protestant schoolhouse, now the parish hall

  • the unadorned interior of the church

  • The gallery is also kept simple

  • the cemetery, facing the rear of the church and rectory

The rectory and the school house are hipped roof buildings , they are surrounded by gardens. The church has a forecourt lined with trees and the walled cemetery adjoins it at the side.

According to the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments , the character of the buildings illustrates the Lutheran denomination of the immigrants, their economical colonist spirit and the simple rural classicism .

literature

  • Wilhelm Neu, Volker Liedke: Upper Bavaria . Ed .: Michael Petzet , Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (=  Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.2 ). Oldenbourg, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-486-52392-9 .
  • Ernst Götz u. a. (Editor): Georg Dehio (founder): Handbook of German Art Monuments, Bavaria IV: Munich and Upper Bavaria. 2nd edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich / Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-422-03010-7 , p. 892.
  • Ernst Dittler: Palatinate farmers settle in the Freising area 1820–1833 . In: Zs. Amperland. 1970, pp. 128-131.
  • Beat Bühler: Allershausen - a walk through its history. With a chronicle 1972–2012. Allershausen 2014.

Web links

Commons : Evangelical Parish Church (Oberallershausen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Dittler: Palatinate farmers settle in the Freising area 1820–1833 . In: Zs. Amperland. 1970, pp. 128-131
  2. ↑ Beat Bühler: Allershausen - a walk through its history. With a chronicle 1972–2012. Allershausen 2014. pp. 30–33

Coordinates: 48 ° 25 ′ 46.7 ″  N , 11 ° 35 ′ 7 ″  E