St. Francis (Munich)
The parish church of St. Franziskus in Munich - Untergiesing is a Catholic church building that is consecrated to St. Francis . The church is in the style of neo-baroque built and the east two steeples and a gabled facade. It is on the corner of Hans-Mielich- and Konradinstraße and, together with the nearby Hans-Mielich-Platz, forms the center of the Untergiesing district .
history
Due to the strong increase in the Catholic population, the Untergiesing church building association was founded in 1913. During the First World War, the association acquired parts of the dismantled Schrannenhalle with the aim of converting it into an emergency church , which was prevented by the circumstances of the war. Thanks to a foundation by the American priest Karl Reichlin and the courtesy of the original owner, the association was able to buy the barracks of a refugee camp at Hans-Mielich-Strasse 4 in the spring of 1919. Michael von Faulhaber consecrated the emergency church on February 8, 1920 to St. Francis. She was assigned a pastoral care unit in March 1920. On February 22, 1922, the elevation to the parish took place. In October 1922, a foundation acquired a new building site on the same street. Today's church was built here in 1925/1926 according to plans by Richard Steidle . The foundation stone was laid on May 10, 1925, and on October 3, 1926, the 700th anniversary of the death of St. Francis of Assisi, the consecration.
St. Francis suffered severe damage in the air raids on September 6th and 7th, 1943. The nave burned out completely; only the outer walls and the towers remained. The church furnishings from the period of construction were largely lost, including the high altar with a picture by Franz Xaver Dietrich , the Way of the Cross by painter Ranzinger, the organ by Hans Eisenschmid, pulpit and communion bench by plasterer Karl Schier, but also older inventory items such as a painting by Lazarus Rembrandt pupil Jakob de Wet, the tabernacle by Ignaz Günther and two busts of saints that were ascribed to Johann Baptist Straub .
After the Second World War, it was rebuilt and refurbished in a simpler form by 1951. The interior was redesigned in the 1980s under Pastor Johannes Warmedinger.
The building together with the rectory to the south is registered as a monument in the Bavarian list of monuments.
The parish church belongs to the parish association Mariahilf St. Franziskus, which belongs to the Catholic Church Foundation Mariahilf München-Au.
architecture
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The hall church with the twin towers, which is oriented to the west due to the course of the road, is built in Untergiesing between the Isar and Auer Mühlbach . The neo-baroque building is dominated by the imposing gable facade on the street side. Two slightly protruding corner towers flank the outwardly vaulted three-axis central building with its colossal pilasters and the segmented gable. Circumferential profiled cornices divide the towers into floors of different heights, which are crowned by a double copper dome and a gold-plated cross.
The south tower houses a four-bell ring, the big bell is hung in the north tower. They sound on the striking notes b 0 , d 1 , f 1 , g 1 and b 1 in the Parsifal motif. Bells 1, 2 and 4 were cast by Karl Czudnochowsky , bells 3 and 5 are historical.
The nave is covered by a gable roof and exposed to the north and south through arched windows above which small concave and convex curved windows are let in. The semicircular, arched west choir is drawn in and lower.
Furnishing
Instead of the original wooden barrel vault, the interior is closed off by a flat coffered ceiling . The east gallery serves as the installation site for the organ. The wooden church stalls leave a central aisle free. Inside, a large fluted round arch opens the choir to the ship. The arcade arches of the wall pillar hall provide space for side chapels, the stations of the cross and confessionals. Since the redesign in the 1980s, the furnishings have lost their post-war sobriety and have been given an appropriate visual program again.
To the right of the main entrance is a side chapel with a wood-carved Pietà . A holy grave with the body of Jesus is depicted at her feet . 1983 Michael Veit created the bronze altar , the front, the Emmaus disciples , behind the sacrifice of Isaac and displays the narrow sides of the sun and moon and is covered by an overhanging stone Mensa plate. Behind it is a monumental mosaic with three large circles made of 30,000 natural stones, which points to the Trinity and goes back to Georg Poschner in 1983. The large wooden crucifix of the three-nail type was created by Hermann Rösner (1952) and the other bronze works such as the tabernacle stele, the candlestick and ambo were also created by Veit (1982/1983).
To the left of the choir arch is a wooden statue of St. Francis, to whom the church is consecrated, a work by Vinzenz Mussner from 1950. On the right, the Virgin Mary by Hermann Rösner corresponds. On the long side, St. Elisabeth can be seen with a bouquet of roses in her arms.
The Stations of the Cross from 1745 on the long sides come from Großhelfendorf . Presumably in the 18th century a copy of the Passau miraculous image of Maria Hilf was made by Lukas Cranach in the southwest of the vestibule. Opposite in the northwest is a wooden figure by Hermann Rösner (1953) depicting St. Anthony of Padua with the baby Jesus on his arm. Two memorial plaques in the adjoining war memorial chapel remind with 287 names of soldiers who died in the Second World War.
organ
Hans Eisenschmid's first organ burned down in 1943. After the church was rebuilt after the Second World War, the Carl Schuster company installed a three-manual organ in 1951 that had 57 registers and an electropneumatic cone shutter. (A similar instrument with the same disposition was made in St. Maximilian in 1954. )
The present organ was built by JL van den Heuvel Orgelbouw and inaugurated on October 19, 1997. Its 51 registers are divided into three manuals and pedal . It has a total of 3308 pipes . The game table is free-standing and has a mechanical action mechanism . On the other hand, the coupling and the filing system are electric. The disposition of the symphonic organ is as follows:
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- Coupling : II / I, III / I, III / I 16 ′, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
- Playing aids : electronic register combination system, crescendo 1 (standard), crescendo 2 (programmable)
See also
literature
- Lothar Altmann: Catholic parish church St. Franziskus Munich-Giesing (= Small Art Guide. Volume 52). Schnell & Steiner, Munich 1984.
Web links
- Official website of the parish,
- Lothar Altmann: Catholic parish church Sankt Franziskus Munich-Giesing ( Memento from October 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- Lothar Altmann: A Puchheim camp barracks as a Munich emergency church. In: Amperland. Vol. 22, 1986, pp. 216-218 (PDF).
Individual evidence
- ^ Lothar Altmann: A Puchheim camp barrack as a Munich emergency church. In: Amperland. Vol. 22, 1986, pp. 216-218, accessed on September 11, 2019 (PDF).
- ↑ a b c d Lothar Altmann: Katholische Stadtpfarrkirche Sankt Franziskus München-Giesing ( Memento from October 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b List of monuments for Munich (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, monument number D-1-62-000-2399 .
- ↑ Parish Association Mariahilf-St. Francis. Retrieved September 10, 2019 .
- ↑ Pietà and Holy Sepulcher in St. Francis .
- ↑ Alexandra Scheifers: Our church St. Franziskus in Munich Untergiesing. Retrieved September 10, 2019.
- ↑ http://www.denkmalprojekt.org , accessed on September 10, 2019.
- ^ Organ in Isarvorstadt, St. Maximilian , accessed on September 10, 2019.
- ↑ JL Van den Heuvel Orgelbau , accessed on September 4, 2019.
Coordinates: 48 ° 6 ′ 52.9 " N , 11 ° 34 ′ 11.4" E