St. Alto (Unterhaching)

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View to the altar
View through the room to the organ gallery

The St. Alto Church is a Roman Catholic parish church of the Archdiocese of Munich-Freising in Unterhaching . It is located in the present center of the parish and bears the patronage of Saint Alto .

history

The growth of the community Unterhaching to the northwest at the beginning of the 1930s made a second parish church necessary next to the previous Romanesque parish church of St. Korbinian . In 1932 the parish vicarie St. Alto was consecrated by Michael Cardinal von Faulhaber . In 1946 it was raised to an independent parish and thus separated from the mother parish of St. Korbinian. In the course of a further expansion, a new projecting transept and a new side church tower were built in 1960 . A comprehensive interior renovation took place in 2016. Due to its central location in Unterhaching, St. Alto is today the main parish of the Unterhaching Parish Association.

Building description

The floor plan of the west parish church of St. Alto follows the shape of a Latin cross , whereby the building appears relatively long compared to the height of the room due to its expansion in 1960. The sacristy , rectory and the 28 m high church tower are connected to the wide transept in the north .

The simple, bright interior is spanned by a vaulted wooden ceiling and filled with light through simple round windows. Above the entrance portal there is a small organ loft and a round window around which the organ has been built so as not to cover it up.

Garhammer organ
Rückpositiv

organ

Today's organ was built in 1985 by the Josef Garhammer company from Weilheim in Upper Bavaria . It has 19 registers on two manuals and a pedal as well as fully mechanical sliding drawers . The disposition is as follows:

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Principal 8th'
2. Covered 8th'
3. octave 4 ′
4th recorder 4 ′
5. Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
6th Super octave 2 ′
7th Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
8th. Trumpet 8th'
Tremulant
II Rückpositiv C – g 3
9. Wood-covered 8th'
10. Principal 4 ′
11. Reed flute 4 ′
12. Sesquialter II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
13. flute 2 ′
Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
14th Larigot II 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ + 1 ′
15th Vox humana 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
16. Sub bass 16 ′
17th Octave bass 8th'
20th Wide principal 4 ′
21st trombone 16 ′
Annotation:
  1. ↑ Preliminary print from Larigot II 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ + 1 ′

Web links

Commons : St. Alto (Unterhaching)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Chronicle of the parish of St. Alto
  2. ↑ Description of the church building based on the photos.
  3. ^ Description of the Garhammer organ

Coordinates: 48 ° 4 ′ 16.7 ″  N , 11 ° 36 ′ 20.2 ″  E