New St. George's Church (Milbertshofen)
St. Georg is a neo-baroque Catholic church building with elements of the Heimat style , west of Schleißheimer Strasse in the Milbertshofen district of Munich .
history
Milbertshofen had only been a Schwaige for centuries . A church belonging to Schwaige was first mentioned in 1360. Remnants of the old Georgskirche , built in the early 16th century, are the only remaining witnesses of Milbertshofen’s nucleus. The place only expanded from 1800, when Elector Max IV. Joseph handed the estate over to four farmers from Waldsassen .
The first pastor of the independent parish of St. Georg from 1904 , Theodor Triebenbacher, campaigned for a new church to be built; a competition was announced as early as 1905. In terms of the design specifications, it was assumed that the church tower, as a symbol of a future Munich district, should not be inferior to the churches that already existed in other suburbs , although Milbertshofen was not incorporated into Munich until 1913 - three years after it was elevated to the city of Munich. The design of a neo-Romanesque building by Otho Orlando Kurz and Felix Graf von Courten emerged successfully from the architectural competition.
After Triebenbacher's death in 1908, the neo-Romanesque design was discarded for cost reasons and a smaller building was commissioned the following year. The neo-baroque design by Otho Orlando Kurz and Eduard Herbert had already taken part in a competition for a church in Achdorf near Landshut . For a parish the size of Milbertshofen, it represented a novelty, since at that time neo-Romanesque and neo-Gothic were the preferred architectural styles in church construction.
The foundation stone for the new church in Milbertshofen was laid in 1909 - at that time Milbertshofen had around 4,000 inhabitants. St. Georg was inaugurated on April 28, 1912. To the east a rectory was built in 1928 ; the parish hall of Otto Steidle combines since 1972 church and rectory.
As early as 1937, the interior of the church was redesigned in color as part of the first renovation. In the 1960s, a more extensive redesign followed, the ceiling painting damaged in World War II was removed, as well as the high altar and the two side altars - they were works by Karl Baur . The new furnishings came from Otfried Narewski , the colored windows in the choir from Josef Dering . As a result of the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council, St. George was the first Roman Catholic church in Munich to receive a people's altar facing the community . After another redesign at the beginning of the 1980s under Max Faller , the Gothic winged altar from the old St. George's Church was placed behind the altar table. During the last redesign from 2002 to 2005 by Thomas Hadersbeck and Scarlett Munding-Hadersbeck, the church interior was given its present-day appearance. The interior of the church as a whole was brought back closer to its original state from 1912. The Gothic St. George's altar is back in the old St. George's Church, damage that he had suffered at its temporary location has been repaired.
Exterior construction
The Georgskirche stands on a rectangular square a few hundred meters south of the original Milbertshofen settlement core. A terrace surrounds the building on three sides; Staircases lead to the entrances on the west and south sides. The outer walls of the church are curved elliptically. The church interior has a high, tiled hipped roof and is clearly set off from the outside against the entrance hall in the west and the lower recessed polygonal choir in the east.
The sacristy borders the choir to the south . Covered with a mansard roof and a turret with an onion dome as a staircase, it offers a picturesque, romantic impression in the sense of the Heimat style and is clearly set apart from the rest of the building. The square tower is on the north side of the choir. It is richly structured, in the upper part with corners sloping into an octagon, and has a two-tiered copper bell roof . The parsonage adjoins the sacristy and forms a transition to the parsonage. Friedrich Haindl's parsonage from 1928 is adapted to the church building in the restrained Heimat style , while Otto Steidle's parsonage in the modern style of the 1970s contrasts strongly with the other buildings.
inner space
The large church space with elliptically curved ocher-colored side walls is structured by white pilaster strips and cornices . In place of the lost ceiling painting - the main work of the Upper Austrian painter Franz Reiter - a blue gradient that becomes lighter towards the center was applied in contrast to the other ocher ceiling color. On the one hand, the coloring of the lost image was taken up, on the other hand, the sky theme was reinterpreted.
The church is very cautiously decorated with pieces of furniture. A figure of John the Baptist hangs on the left side wall ; it comes from the lost pulpit of the original facility. On the other side, above the side exit, hangs a large crucifix . The altar and the tabernacle are works by Max Faller .
The most striking piece of equipment is the variable picture wall by Dietrich Stalmann behind the altar. It can be changed in a variety of ways with fold-out and sliding picture panels, with smaller colored panels allowing a redesign according to the colors of the church year . The picture wall should be reminiscent of the shape of a winged altar - behind the abstract picture panels there are photographs of the winged altar of the old St. George's Church in Milbertshofen.
Organs
The church has two organs : the large main organ on the west gallery and a portable chest organ . The main organ with slider chest and electro-pneumatic play and register contracture built in 1968 Wilhelm Stöberl . It has 22 registers on two manuals and pedal with the following disposition :
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- Pairing : I / P
- Playing aids : 2 free combinations, 1 free pedal combination, tutti, crescendo roller, individual tongue storage
In 1991, Frenger & Eder built the pedal-less chest organ, which has three divided and four half (nameless) stops. The disposition is as follows:
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literature
- Gabriele Schickel: The two St. Georg churches in Munich-Milbertshofen. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-89870-307-9 .
Web links
- Art and history of St. Georg in Milbertshofen . Parish Association Milbertshofen St. Lanpert-St. George. (Chronicle of both Milbertshofener Georgskirchen)
Individual evidence
- ^ OrganIndex: main organ , accessed on September 4, 2019.
- ^ OrganIndex: Chest Organ , accessed on September 4, 2019.
Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 4.9 ″ N , 11 ° 33 ′ 55.2 ″ E