St. Johann von Capistran (Munich)

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St. Johann von Capistran in Bogenhausen
Monument to St. John of Capistran in front of the church
Entrance of the Church of St. John of Capistran

St. Johann von Capistran is a Catholic church on Gotthelfstrasse in Munich 's Bogenhausen district . The round church building was consecrated to St. John Capistranus in 1960.

Architecture and equipment

Architect Sep Ruf , who also designed the baptismal font in the church, was responsible for the architectural design of the area with the rectory, community library and park .

The round church with exposed brickwork has an inner diameter of 28 meters and an outer diameter of 32 meters, with the inner and outer walls being arranged eccentrically and meeting at an imaginary circular line at the west portal. The resulting space on the east side has four floors and houses on the ground floor u. a. Confessionals, sacristy, baptismal font and church organ (27 registers by C. Schuster & Sons from Munich). The surrounding wall is 12.50 meters high. 22 external pendulum supports made of iron hold the roof with its roof overhang of 4.50 meters. A 3.50 meter high glass dome with a diameter of 5 meters is placed above the altar, a square block with 2 meters edge length from Nagelfluh . It is oriented concentrically on the outer wall and is therefore very close to the eastern edge of the inner circle. The tabernacle designed by Franz Rickert is located directly behind the altar .

The entrance door at the west portal shows figures from the Bible in six bronze reliefs and was designed by Heinrich Kirchner . From the Old Testament (left door): Adam and Eve, the sacrifice of Abraham and the rapture of Elias. From the New Testament (right door): Annunciation, Golgotha ​​and the resurrection of Christ. Above the door there is a large glass painting by Josef Oberberger depicting the root of Jesse .

The way of the cross in the church was designed with bronze reliefs by Karl Knappe .

In front of the church there is a granite monument to St. John of Capistran, designed by the sculptor Josef Henselmann . The bell tower in the form of a high concrete wall with three freely hanging bronze bells (e ′ - fis ′ - a ′) in so-called windows stands next to the church.

location

The church is located in a small park on Gotthelfstrasse and Stuntzstrasse, in the east of Parkstadt Bogenhausen .

history

The model of the church was finished in 1957, the parish hall was built, inaugurated and temporarily used as a place for church services in 1958. The cornerstone of the church was laid on April 12, 1959. On 26 June 1960, the Church of Cardinal was Wendel ordained .

The new pastoral care area was established as a curate in 1957 and raised to a parish in 1963. Parish curate and first pastor was Ludwig Braun, who was succeeded by Günther Naumann in 1973 as pastor.

On February 1st, 2003 the parish association Bogenhausen-Süd was founded. It consists of St. Rita , St. Klara and St. Johann von Capistran, where the headquarters are. These three parishes are looked after by a pastor, until 2008 by Wolfgang Wagner, from October 2008 to summer 2019 by Alois Ebersberger and from September 1, 2019 by Czeslaw Lukasz.

In February 2019, the chairwoman of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Munich , Charlotte Knobloch , criticized the patronage of the church, as the late medieval Franciscan preacher Johannes Capistranus was responsible for the persecution and murder of many Jews . She advocated a name change for the church, which, according to the Archdiocese of Munich, is hardly possible under canon law . The name of the church in 1960 was based on a proposal by the Franciscan Order , which at the time was in charge of the mother parish of St. Gabriel in Haidhausen and to which the controversial saint belonged.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Little Church Leader of the Congregation for the 50th Anniversary 2010 ( online , PDF; 5.4 MB)
  2. ↑ Website of the Association for District Culture in the Munich Northeast e. V.
  3. ^ Günther Naumann (Ed.): 25 years of St. Johann von Capistran Munich. Starnberg 1985, p. 22.
  4. ^ Trudering · Farewell to Pastor Lukasz. In: www.wochenanzeiger.de. July 25, 2019, accessed August 10, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Görl: Jew haters is namesake for the church in Bogenhausen. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , February 19, 2019, accessed on the same day.
  6. ^ Debate about the anti-Jewish church patron in Munich. In: Katholisch.de , February 19, 2019, accessed on the same day.

literature

  • Information brochure St. Johann von Capistran, Verlag Schnell & Steiner, 2003
  • The Parkstadt Bogenhausen in Munich, ed. v. Roland Krack, Munich 2006

Web links

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Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 24.1 ″  N , 11 ° 37 ′ 26.7 ″  E