St. Andreas (Munich)

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St. Andreas Church in Munich

St. Andreas Church in Munich

Denomination : Roman Catholic
Patronage : Apostle Andrew
Consecration date : November 29, 1953
Rank: Parish church in the Isarvorstadt parish association
Order : The parish association is cared for by Capuchins from the St. Anton monastery
Parish : Parish Association Isarvorstadt
Address: Zenettistr. 46, 80337 Munich

Coordinates: 48 ° 7 '34.2 "  N , 11 ° 33' 13.9"  O The Roman Catholic Parish Church of St. Andrew in the Zenettistraße in Schlachthofviertel in Munich was created in 1953 as one of the first modern church in Munich after the Second World War after Plans by Ernst Maria Lang .

history

Wall relief at the entrance of St. Andreas in Munich, showing the first city pastor Emil Muhler

Since there was initially no building site available for a church in the slaughterhouse district, which was newly built towards the end of the 19th century and was rapidly increasing in population, a no longer used dance hall at Adlzreiterstraße 22 was converted for church purposes in the 1920s. It was consecrated on November 25, 1923 and gradually converted from an originally provisional branch church of the parish of St. Peter to the parish church of St. Andrew . In July 1944, this church, including the kindergarten and nurses ' home, was destroyed in a US bomb attack. The kindergarten and nurses' home were able to be rebuilt after the end of the war, but the ruins of the church were only temporarily prepared as an emergency church.

In 1950 it was possible to acquire four ruined sites in Zenettistrasse as building sites for a new church. The design by the Munich architect Ernst Maria Lang emerged as the winning design from an architecture competition organized by the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising . In November 1952, the earthworks began on April 12, 1953, groundbreaking ceremony , on August 18, topping and on 29 November 1953, the new St. Andrew's Church as one of the first new church buildings in the city of Munich after the Second World War by Cardinal Joseph Wendel to be consecrated . As in the earlier parish of St. Andreas, the city pastor was Prelate Emil Muhler .

The general renovation of the interior of St. Andrew's Church took place in two construction phases in 2009 and 2010. First of all, the heating system and the electrical installation were adapted to the current requirements. Afterwards, after removing the old layers of paint, the walls and ceilings were given their original lime paint. Overall, there was a return to the original architecture.

architecture

inside view

The church building in the typical simple objectivity of the early fifties is plastered white, the facade is adorned with a simple, large wooden cross. To the west, the low-rise sacristy connects to the two-story parsonage behind at a right angle. On the right side of the church is the free-standing 32 meter high tower flush with the street front.

The interior of the church is also in the simplicity of the materials that is typical of the times, the beamed ceiling gives the hall the grace of a Romanesque basilica, everything concentrates the view of the oversized crucifix made of linden wood in the chancel. It was created by Georg Johann Lang (1889–1968) from Oberammergau , the architect's father.

organ

organ

The organ was built by Albert Moser around 1955 . After the restoration work in the interior of the church, the organ was cleaned in 2011. She has the following disposition :

Main work I. Manual
Covered 16 ′
Principal 08th'
Solo flute 08th'
octave 04 ′
Fifth 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′
octave 02 ′
mixture 01 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Trumpet 08th'
Positive II. Manual
Dumped 08th'
Willow pipe 08th'
Pipe whistle 04 ′
Little Pomeranian 02 ′
Fifth 01 1 ⁄ 3  ′
octave 01'
Cymbel 01/2 ′
Rohrschalmey 08th'
Swell III. manual
Lovely Gedackt 08th'
Pipe pommer 08th'
Delicate violin 08th'
Principal 04 ′
Flute 04 ′
Beat 04 ′
nasal 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Night horn 02 ′
third 01 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Sif flute 01'
Sharp 01'
musette 16 ′
Cor anglais 08th'
pedal
Principal bass 16 ′
Sub bass 16 ′
Hidden (transm.) 16 ′
Octave bass 08th'
Covered bass 08th'
Pommer 04 ′
Flat flute 02 ′
mixture 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′
trombone 16 ′
Clairon 04 ′

Coupling and playing aids : II-I, III-I, III-II, II-P, II-P, IP

Bells

In the tower there is a sonorous ringing made of five cast steel bells from the Bochum Association from 1953. The bells are named Dreifaltigkeit (c 1 ), Andreas (es 1 ), Maria (f 1 ), Joseph (g 1 ) and Michael (b 1 ). In addition to a German and Latin inscription, each instrument also bears a thread relief, which together express the respective dedication of the bell; an ornament rarely found for steel bells of that time. The total weight of the peal is around 4,550 kilograms. The full bell only sounds on high feasts.

Web links

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