St. Johann Baptist (Solln)

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Parish Church of St. Johann Baptist

St. Johann Baptist is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Munich district of Solln .

location

The church is located at Fellererplatz 8. The area between the church and the school south of it on Herterichstraße forms a sub-center next to the old village center and a connection between the village center in the southwest and the villa colony Solln in the northwest. To the west of the church is the listed Catholic rectory built in 1906 in the immediate vicinity . The church, rectory and school were designed by the same architect and form a stylistic ensemble.

history

After the population of Solln grew at the end of the 19th century, aided by the construction of the Isar Valley Railway , the old church in Solln had become too small. Plans to enlarge it were discarded as impracticable. In 1893 a church building association was founded with the aim of building a new church. In 1903 Franz Rank won an architectural competition. The foundation stone was laid in 1904 and completed in 1905.

The original high altar by Franz Rank was not completed until 1911, and the altar painting by Carl Johann Becker-Gundahl was not installed until 1916 due to disagreements between the artist and the client.

In 1920 Solln, previously part of the Pullach-Solln parish with its seat in Pullach , became an independent parish and the church thus became a parish church.

During the Second World War , the church was only slightly damaged in bombing raids.

In 1966, as part of a renovation, the interior was completely redesigned, which almost doubled the around 260 seats and modernized the interior. The original Art Nouveau furnishings were removed and the high altar replaced with a free-standing altar .

Today the church belongs to the parish of St. Johann Baptist Solln, which is part of the parish association of Solln together with the parish of St. Ansgar.

Building

The church stands out due to its relative size, its steep, mighty saddle roof and its many sections with numerous additions. The style is typical of the architect Franz Rank and represents a combination of modern forms influenced by Art Nouveau with neo-baroque elements of traditional Bavarian church building in the sense of the homeland movement of the time. The size reflects the increased number and prosperity of the Sollner population at the time of construction. Rank submitted his competition design under the keyword "Down to earth".

South portal

The nave is slightly bulged on the sides, has a ceiling with mirror vaults without supports and is only sparsely decorated. The elongated, polygonal choir in the east has a barrel vault with a stitch cap . Behind it there is an ambulatory, to the right of it the sacristy.

In the west there is a vestibule, on the sides of which there are two rooms that are now used as a baptistery and prayer room. There is an arched hall in front of the west entrance.

The south entrance has an elongated porch with an ornate portal. The portal is a stone carving from the late 19th century and is a copy of the Mannerist church portal of the Tückelhausen monastery . The installation in the new church was a condition of the architectural competition and the stylistic differences between the portal and the rest of the church are probably the reason for the elongated porch .

A wall in the style of a cemetery wall adjacent to the south portal, which surrounds the church on the south side, delimits an area that is planted with trees. On the outside of the wall in the southwest there is a war memorial , created after 1918 by Karl Lösche .

The tower is on the north flank at the level of the sacristy. It has an onion cap and is 64 meters high.

Interior

Interior with a view of the apse

The altarpiece by Carl Johann Becker-Gundahl has been in the church choir since 1983 , but without the original high altar. It is an Art Nouveau painting from 1915 and shows John the Baptist at the baptism of Jesus . On its sides there are figures of the parents of the church patron, Saints Zacharias and Elisabeth , created in 1913 by Karl Baur .

The new altar with the large bronze cross hanging over it, the ambo , and the tabernacle to the right of the choir arch are by Karl Reidel .

The church windows on the sides were created by the glass painter Wilhelm Pütz , who lived in Solln, in 1946/1947 after the old windows had been destroyed in the war. The side windows of the choir, which show the birth and resurrection of Christ , also come from him . The middle window “Whitsun miracle” was created later by his daughters Felicitas Puchner and Eva-Marie Pütz after removing the high altar.

Since 1966 there have been two important late Gothic carved figures in the church that were previously in the old Sollner church : above the tabernacle a mercy seat (circa 1511–1515) attributed to the environment of Erasmus Grasser or the master von Rabenden , and a rosary Madonna to the left of the choir arch Child (circa 1510).

On the back wall there are carvings by Balthasar Schmitt from 1930: monumental figures of Peter and Paul on the left and right , and on the parapet of the gallery relief medallions that used to belong to one of the original side altars. The pictures to the right and left of the organ (1929/1930), which used to be the altarpieces of the original side altars, and the pictures of the Stations of the Cross on the sides of the church (1921) come from Gebhard Fugel .

organ

The organ

The organ was built in 1993 by Dieter Schingnitz . It has 33 registers on two manuals and a pedal with mechanical sliding drawers and double registers.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Bourdon 16 ′
2. Montre 8th'
3. Flûte harmonique 8th'
4th Bourdon 8th'
5. Prefix 4 ′
6th Flûte douce 4 ′
7th Nasard 2 23
8th. Duplicate 2 ′
9. Mixture V 1 13
10. Cornett V 8th'
11. Bombard 16 ′
12. Trumpet 8th'
Tremulant
II Swell C – g 3
13. Cor de nuit 8th'
14th Gamba 8th'
15th Voix céleste 8th'
16. Principal 4 ′
17th Flûte octaviante 4 ′
18th Fifth 2 23
19th Octavine 2 ′
20th third 1 35
21st Larigot 1 13
22nd Plein jeu IV 2 ′
23. bassoon 16 ′
24. Trumpet 8th'
25th Hautbois 8th'
26th Clairon 4 ′
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
27. Principal bass 16 ′
28. Sub bass 16 ′
29 octave 8th'
30th Flute 8th'
31. Principal 4 ′
32. trombone 16 ′
33. Trumpet 8th'
  • Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P.
  • 128 typesetting combinations (4 x 32 combinations).

literature

  • Lothar Altmann: Catholic Church of St. Johann Baptist . In: Hermann Sand , Ingrid Sand (ed.): Solln. The neighborhood book . inma Marketing GmbH Verlag, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-923395-12-4 , p. 76-81 .
  • Bernhard Marx: St. Johann Baptist Solln 1905-2005 . inma Marketing GmbH Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-9809307-5-0 .
  • Denis A. Chevalley, Timm Weski: State Capital Munich - Southwest (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.2 / 2 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-87490-584-5 , p. 180 ff .

Web links

Commons : St. Johann Baptist (Solln)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Schingnitz organ in St. Johann Baptist, Solln . www.organindex.de. Accessed May 14, 2018.

Coordinates: 48 ° 4 ′ 37.7 ″  N , 11 ° 31 ′ 3.9 ″  E