St. Georg (Sünzhausen)
The parish church of St. Georg is the Roman Catholic village church of Sünzhausen (Upper Bavaria). In its current form, the building was erected between 1906 and 1908. The church with its 41 meter high tower is visible from afar on a ridge on the northern edge of the village.
architecture
It is a protected architectural monument with the file number D-1-78-124-276. It is described in the list of architectural monuments in Freising as a wide hall building made of exposed bricks with a strongly recessed apse, attached sacristy and choir flank tower, built in neo-Romanesque and Gothic style according to plans by Johann Baptist Schott 1906-08; with equipment
The church was designed by the Munich architect Johann Baptist Schott . He erected a bare brick building , which was unusual for the northern Munich area , in which clearly neo-Romanesque building elements emerged.
Above the western portal there is a stone relief of the church patron, St. George . At his feet the head of the dragon he defeated.
organ
The organ was built in 1908 by Willibald Siemann . It has 11 stops on two manuals and a pedal. It is the company's first verifiable organ with a free pipe prospect; originally it had pneumatic cone chests; the console and the action were renewed in 1984. The disposition is:
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- Coupling : II / I, II / P, I / P, super-octave coupling II / I, sub-octave coupling II / I, super-octave coupling I.
- Remarks: cone chest , pneumatic play and stop action
The parish Sünzhausen was from 1221 incorporated parish of the collegiate monastery St. Veit . Until the monastery was dissolved in the course of secularization in 1802, the parish also included the St. Ottilia branch church in Kühnhausen .
Picture gallery
Web links
- List of monuments for Freising (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 48 ° 23 '24 " N , 11 ° 39' 37" E