St. Georg (Bogenhausen)

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St. Georg Church in Munich-Bogenhausen

The Catholic Filialkirche St. Georg is the former village church of Bogenhausen and was its spiritual center until the Church of the Holy Blood was built . Today it is best known for its Bogenhausen cemetery , where many celebrities found their final resting place.

location

St. Georg (Bogenhauser Kirchplatz 1) is located on the Isar high bank in the north of the former village center. Today, south-east of Montgelasstrasse, its location is quiet and idyllic.

history

Little is known about the origin of the church. In the area of ​​today's Munich on the right of the Isar , it was the original parish . In 1357 it was incorporated into the Freising Monastery . St. Georg is the mother church for the entire area to the right of the Isar between the Menterschwaige , Oberföhring and Haar . With the consecration of the parish church Heilig Blut in 1934, St. George lost its status as a parish church and has been a subsidiary of Heilig Blut ever since.

Almost undamaged in the Second World War, the church was restored to its original color scheme in a general renovation that lasted until 2000.

In 1973 Michelangelo Antonioni filmed a key scene in his film Profession: Reporter with Jack Nicholson in the lead role in this church .

Building description

The hall church has a retracted church tower in the west. There is an entrance room in the south and the baptistery in the north . The tower basement, which comes from the late Romanesque predecessor building, is the oldest evidence of a church in Bogenhausen. Probably in the first half of the 15th century, the old choir was replaced by a late Gothic new building with a polygonal finish, which still exists today. In 1759, the then Bogenhausen pastor Franz Georg Riedl and Count August Joseph von Toerring , owners of Neuberghausen Castle near the church, initiated the renovation of the nave and recruited Johann Michael Fischer as architects. The expansion to the Rococo church began in 1766. After Fischer's death in the same year, Balthasar Trischberger took over the construction management and carried out the extension and vaulting . The nave is divided into two by a deep gallery . The front part has a flat dome over stitch caps and pendants . The rear part is covered by a flat barrel vault . The vault painted from Philipp Helterhof. The construction work was completed in 1768. In 1777 the church tower , with 3 bells hanging in it , received its double-constricted onion , in the same year the interior of the church was completed. The rectory on Neuberghauser Straße is a baroque saddle roof building, already designated in 1705.

organ

1958 was organ with two manuals and pedal and 12 registers of the company GF Steinmeyer & Co. built. It has electro-pneumatic pocket drawers.

She has the following disposition :

I Manual C-g 3
Reed flute 08th'
Praestant 04 ′
Forest flute 02 ′
mixture 01 1 ⁄ 3  ′
II Manual C-g 3
Dumped 08th'
Salicional 08th'
Night horn 04 ′
Principal 02 ′
Fifth 01 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Octave bass 08th'
Pommer 04 ′
  • Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
  • Playing aids : roller, tutti, blind sill, 1 free combination, hand register

Important works of art

High altar
pulpit

Place of activity of Father Alfred Delp

Monument to Delp nearby

Father Alfred Delp SJ was the church rector in St. Georg in the 1930s. The Kreisau Circle met in the rectory of St. Georg . Delp was arrested there on July 28, 1944 after a morning mass in St. Georg .

A few steps further (at 48 ° 8 ′ 51.53 ″  N , 11 ° 36 ′ 3.86 ″  E ), on the edge of the Maximiliansanlagen , Delp was erected a monument, which on May 23, 1981 by Cardinal Josef Ratzinger, was erected later Pope Benedict XVI. , was consecrated. It comes from the Munich artist Klaus Backmund and depicts the "Three Men in the Fiery Furnace" according to the Book of Daniel ( Dan 3,6  LUT ). The inscription is on a bronze plate, the shape and separate location of which is reminiscent of the Bavarian tradition of the death board connects.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Organ Databank , accessed on September 4, 2019.
  2. ↑ The initiator's webpage, accessed on June 6, 2007

literature

  • Dagmar Bäuml-Stosiek, Katharina Steiner: The Bogenhausen cemetery - Gottesacker for Munich and global citizens, a tour with photos of Lioba beds. MünchenVerlag 2009, ISBN 978-3-937090-42-9 .
  • Klaus Gallas : Munich. From the Guelph foundation of Henry the Lion to the present: art, culture, history . DuMont, Cologne 1979, ISBN 3-7701-1094-3 (DuMont documents: DuMont art travel guide).
  • Norbert Lieb: St. Georg in Munich-Bogenhausen. A village church high above the banks of the Isar as an important work of art and its cemetery as the final resting place of famous Munich residents. Munich: Ehrenwirth 1987, ISBN 3-431-02967-1 .
  • Erich Scheibmayr , Last Home. Munich 1985, self-published.
  • Erich Scheibmayr, who? When? Where? Munich, 3 parts, 1989, 1997, 2002, self-published.
  • Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments, Volume Munich , 1996, Deutscher Kunstverlag GmbH Munich Berlin

Web links

Commons : St. Georg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 8 '52 "  N , 11 ° 36' 5.8"  E