St. Anton (Hausham)
The Catholic parish church of St. Anton is a Catholic parish church. It is located in the Abwinkl district of the Hausham community and belongs to the Miesbach deanery in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising .
Place and history
With the advent of coal mining in the 19th century, many new residents settled there, and a new church was necessary. In 1902 a church building association was founded to organize the funds for the large project. In 1905 a design by the Munich architect Richard Berndl for a church with a parsonage and an opposite cemetery on the Haushamer Alm was published; Berndl estimated the construction costs of the church without ancillary buildings, outdoor facilities and furnishings at 130,000 marks . However, this plan was rejected.
The church was finally built within a short time, at great sacrifice on the part of the population. The first service was celebrated on November 1, 1909, after completing the furnishings, the consecration took place in 1912 and in 1914 the church was elevated to a parish church.
architecture
The architect of the church, which was completed in 1909 in the neo-baroque style, was Heinrich Hauberrisser from Regensburg . The church is decorated in yellow and white. There is a volute gable on the west side . The bell tower has an onion dome . The church is a wide, five-bay hall with a drawn-in choir closed on three sides . The main room is spanned by a pressed lancet barrel vault. The chancel is separated by an Art Nouveau choir arch .
Furnishing
Altars
The Regensburg sculptor Georg Schreiner created three altar structures in stucco marble and the pulpit . These elements are each kept in Art Nouveau style. In the central group of figures, the high altar shows the church patron Antonius with the baby Jesus, next to it the diocese patron Korbinian and St. Rupert of Salzburg . The two side altars show a Maria Immaculate and Joseph of Nazareth . The celebration altar (folk altar) fits harmoniously into the ensemble. A communion bench in stucco marble completes the sanctuary.
Further equipment
The organ gallery in the west carries a Koulen organ from 1911 in a romantic mood . After renovation, it has been back in operation since November 2013. On the ceiling painting from 1930, created by Anton Niedermaier , next to the Haushamer Church in front of a local mountain backdrop, St. Barbara is the patroness of the miners. It recalls the mining era in Hausham, which has been a thing of the past since 1966. In the glass windows from the time the church was built, holy figures are depicted: E.g. Elisabeth of Thuringia , Georg , Vincent of Paul , Joseph of Nazareth and the Archangel Michael . The baptistery on the left is decorated with a stained glass window depicting the baptism of Christ by John the Baptist . On the south side there is a skylight that simulates an open window through which a dove with an olive branch appears to be flying. This representation alludes to the story of Noah in the biblical book of Genesis .
Forecourt
If you leave the church through one of the two portals in the west, you stand on a square with a new Antonius column, which was erected on the occasion of the centenary of the church in 2009. Between the houses you can see the Haushamer Alm , a moraine hill in the middle of the village. This hill was originally considered as a possible location for the church. However, this consideration was rejected again due to the poor accessibility. That is why the church stands in the center of the village today.
Bells
From the tower of St. Anton's Church, five bells in the tone sequence c sharp 1 , e 1 , f sharp 1 , a 1 and c sharp 2 ring to the festive peal. The four larger ones are made of cast steel and were cast by the Bochumer Verein in 1951 . Only the small bell is made of bronze and dates from the interwar period. Due to the old age and damage to the steel bell chair, the bell chair and the oak yokes were replaced in 2019. At the request of the pastor, the lace catchers were built and the ringing angle increased.
literature
- Klaus Kratzsch: District Miesbach (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.15 ). 2nd improved edition. Munich / Zurich 1987.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Architektonische Rundschau , Volume 21, 1905, Issue 6, p. 48 and Plate 45.
- ↑ Hausham - Bells ring again Munich Mercury, December 1, 2019.
Coordinates: 47 ° 44 ′ 49 ″ N , 11 ° 50 ′ 27 ″ E