Passionskirche (Munich-Obersendling)

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Passion Church in Munich's Obersendling district

The Passionskirche is an Evangelical Lutheran church building in Munich- Obersendling . It was consecrated in 1933 as a so-called emergency church , was given its name in 1947, was replaced by a new building in 1970 and is now one of eleven churches in the Dean's Southern District of the Munich Dean's Office .

history

The motto of the Passion Church on a wooden beam from the old emergency church, displayed in the corridor between the church and the parish hall

The first plans for an own Protestant church in the Obersendling district were made between the First and Second World Wars: the increase in Munich's population and the high unemployment caused by the effects of the global economic crisis at the beginning of the 1930s also meant larger tasks in the pastoral care of the new citizens, among them there were also many Protestant Christians. In the years 1930 to 1933, Eduard Putz, then city vicar, held the first church services for Obersendling in the school on Boschetsrieder Straße. In 1933 an emergency church was built on Tölzer Strasse in the Sprengel, which until then belonged to the Church of the Assumption . Even before the inauguration, Putz was appointed to the regional church council by regional bishop Hans Meiser in June 1933. The new church was inaugurated on September 3, 1933 by Putz's successor, City Vicar Hans Siebert, and the district dean Oberkirchenrat Karl Baum with the motto "Rejoice in the Lord all the way" ( Phil 4,4  EU ).

The new emergency church survived the air raids on Munich with little damage. Only during the attack on September 7, 1943, according to the parish chronicle, three stick incendiary bombs fell in the interior of the church, and 37 more fell on the church forecourt.

The emergency church, named Passionskirche since 1947, no longer offered enough space in the 1960s for the congregation, which in the meantime had grown significantly , particularly as a result of the Siemens settlement that was created in the western parish. Based on a design by the Munich government architect Fritz Zeitler, the new parish hall was inaugurated on the site of the previous emergency church in 1968 instead of the old youth home and the foundation stone for today's Passion Church was laid. The ensemble of red brick buildings consists of three parts surrounding the forecourt: the bell bearer in the north, the church building in the east and the parish hall in the south.

The new church was inaugurated for Easter on April 5, 1970 and handed over to its destination by the Munich district dean, Oberkirchenrat Hans Schmidt.

Bells

Bell tower of the Passion Church

The three bells of the Passion Church were cast in 1983 in the Passau bell foundry Rudolf Perner . The peace bell with the inscription "ER IS OUR PEACE" has the strike tone "es", the medium-sized bell the tone "ges" and the small bell the tone "as". Together they form a three-bell ring that matches the bell motif of the Te Deum . The bells hang one above the other in a steel bell cage and were rung for the first time on Christmas Eve 1983.

organ

Deininger & Renner organ in the Passionskirche

The organ on the gallery in the back of the church was made in 1975 by the organ builder Deininger & Renner in Oettingen . The instrument has 16 stops on two manuals and a pedal .

The disposition is as follows:

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
Principal 8th'
Reed flute 8th'
Octave 4 ′
Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Hollow flute 2 ′
third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Mixture III 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Tremulant
II breastwork
(swellable) C – g 3
Dumped 8th'
Capstan flute 8th'
Wooden flute 4 ′
Principal 2 ′
recorder 1'
Cromorne 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
Sub-bass 16 ′
Gemshorn 8th'
octave 4 ′

Emergency Church (1933–1969)

  • Exterior view

  • inner space

  • Sanctuary

  • Altar cross, above it a motto bar

  • Gallery

Web links

Commons : Passionskirche (Munich)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Schiermeier: Sendling . Franz Schiermeier, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-943866-80-3 , pp. 212 .
  2. ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk Dr. Jörg Haller: Zwölfuhrluten: Munich-Obersendling Passionskirche . March 14, 2008 ( br.de [accessed February 21, 2019]).
  3. ↑ a b Dorle Gribl : Obersendling and Thalkirchen in the years 1933 - 1945 . Volk Verlag , Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-937200-34-7 , pp. 99-101 .
  4. ^ Parish greeting Passionskirche Dec. 2016 - March 2017, page 11, and April - July 2020, pages 4 and 5.
  5. ↑ The bells. Passionskirche.net, accessed on February 21, 2019 .
  6. ^ Munich / Sendling, Passionskirche - Organ index, the free organ database. Retrieved February 21, 2019 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  N , 11 ° 32 ′ 19.6 ″  E