St. Andreas (Sauerlach)

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The choir flank tower with a characteristic onion dome.

The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Andreas is a baroque hall church in the municipality of Sauerlach in the Upper Bavarian district of Munich . Together with St. Michael in Arget (since 2007) and St. Margaret in Altkirchen (since 2012) it forms the Sauerlach Parish Association in the Ottobrunn deanery of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising .

History and architecture

As early as 799/800 AD, a parish church in Sauerlach was mentioned in a document in the traditions of the Freising Monastery . At the time of the Synod of Reisbach, to which this traditional note refers, the church, which was presumably previously cared for by the monastery of St. Zeno in Isen , was transferred to Bishop Atto von Freising . Sauerlach thus expressly became an episcopal church. Only in the diocesan registers of 1315 does Sauerlach appear as a separate parish in the association of the Ismaning deanery .

The old church

In terms of floor plan, the church at that time was probably as wide as it is today, but eight meters shorter in the west. The roof must have already started shortly above the current windows and the church tower probably corresponded to that of the parish church of St. Margareth in Altkirchen. In addition, the windows must have been rather small, as the church was repeatedly described as "dark and damp". The ceiling of the nave was probably made of wood and was flat. Towards the end of the 17th century, the church was often described as dilapidated. It is conceivable that the roof and ceiling in the nave were rotten and in danger of collapsing.

Today's church

High altar
View under the gallery with the cloister

The current building was erected around 1710 on the basis of the older church, whose tuff stone outer wall that was still in place may have been reused. The sacristy was also built in the early 18th century. The nave was extended by eight meters to the west in 1952/53, and the church tower was renovated at the same time. In addition, the non-load-bearing pillars inside were knocked out so that a small corridor was created on each side. On September 27, 1953, the archbishop of Munich and Freising, Joseph Wendel , consecrated the church.

On the night of August 26th to 27th, 1991, a fire broke out behind the high altar for unknown reasons. It spread quickly and caused devastating damage inside the church. The fire developed an enormous amount of heat, which ate its way along the nave to the gallery and also affected the new organ, which was only installed four years ago. The high altar, organ, the two side altars and many figures were either destroyed by flames or badly damaged. As a result, a service in the parish church could not be celebrated again until September 1992, and the main altar was only erected in summer 1994. On December 23, 1994, a new organ was finally installed, 1000 pipes, the complete console and the gilding of the otherwise preserved case had to be replaced.

The church is a baroque hall building with a retracted polygonal choir and a mighty choir flank tower in the southeast, which is finished with an octagonal structure and a characteristic onion dome. The building is listed as a monument under the list number D-1-84-141-4 in the Bavarian list of monuments.

literature

  • Karl Hobmair : Hachinger Heimatbuch. Oberhaching 1979.
  • Marianne Mehling: Knaur's cultural guide in color Upper Bavaria. Munich 1981.
  • Friends of Heimatfreunde Sauerlach e. V. (Ed.): Local history museum of the community Sauerlach in Arget . Sauerlach 2014.

Web links

Commons : St. Andreas (Sauerlach)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

supporting documents

  1. ^ Cozroh Codex (BayHStA HL Freising 3a). In: Digital Library. Munich Digitization Center, accessed on October 5, 2019 .
  2. ^ Helmuth Stahleder: Episcopal and aristocratic own churches of the Diocese of Freising in the early Middle Ages and the church organization in 1315 . In: Upper Bavarian Archive . tape 104 , 1979, pp. 179 ff .
  3. ↑ Karl Hobmaier: Hachinger Heimatbuch . Oberhaching 1979, p. 180 .
  4. ^ Ludwig Wagner: History of the parish of St. Andreas . In: Sauerlach community (ed.): Sauerlacher community archive B 322/2 . Sauerlach, S. 342 .
  5. ^ Karl Hobmair: Hachinger Heimatbuch . Oberhaching 1979.
  6. ↑ Otto Freiherr Riederer von Paar: 1200 years of a Catholic parish . In: Förderverein Heimatfreunde Sauerlach eV (Hrsg.): Sauerlach. The gateway to the Bavarian Oberland . Sauerlach 2000, p. 101 .
  7. ↑ Otto Freiherr Riederer von Paar: 1200 years of a Catholic parish . In: Förderverein Heimatfreunde Sauerlach eV (Hrsg.): Sauerlach. The gateway to the Bavarian Oberland . Sauerlach 2000, p. 108 .
  8. ↑ Marianne Mehling (Ed.): Knaurs Kulturführer in Farbe Oberbayern . Munich 1981, p. 207 .


Coordinates: 47 ° 58 ′ 19.7 ″  N , 11 ° 39 ′ 0.4 ″  E