St. Mauritius (Munich)

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Church building from the southwest

St. Mauritius is a brutalist church center in Munich 's Moosach district .

history

The parish of St. Mauritius emerged as a split from the parish of St. Martin after the growing number of Catholics in Moosach had made an additional pastoral care district necessary due to heavy building activity southwest of Dachauer Straße. A church foundation in St. Mauritius was established in 1952, a pastor was appointed in 1962 and a church tent was erected, which was replaced by a larger one the following year. In October 1965 the construction of today's church center at Templestrasse 5 began, and in March 1966 the foundation stone was laid. The inauguration of the church building was celebrated in March 1967. St. Mauritius was its own city parish from October 1968. A lack of priests and declining numbers of Catholics led to the establishment of the Munich-Moosach parish association and the amalgamation of the parishes of St. Mauritius, St. Martin and Peace of Christ in 2014.

buildings

Footpath, kindergarten on the left

The church center was planned by architects Herbert Groethuysen , Detlef Schreiber and Gernot Sachsse as an urban unit.

The buildings of the church center are lined up on a footpath between Templestrasse and Maria-Ward-Strasse. Coming from Templestrasse you first pass the single-storey sacristan's house on the left. This is followed by the one-storey kindergarten; opposite, on the right, is the two-story rectory, its entrance is under a row of arcades. The tower stands in the middle of the path, in front of a courtyard formed by a covered corridor with the parish hall on the right and the church building on the left. All buildings are characterized by a strict cuboid structure. The facades of the concrete buildings are made of exposed concrete, on the rectory, the parish hall and in the lower part of the church they are clad with exposed aggregate concrete panels, at the kindergarten parts of the facade are painted blue. The original sacristan's house was demolished in 2005 due to structural damage. The new building, planned by the architects Unterlandstättner Schmöller, is stylistically modeled on its predecessor; However, it is made of sand-lime bricks and its facade is made of precast concrete elements.

Church interior

Church interior

The main room of the church is a square hall with a side length of 21 meters and a height of 14 meters. The floor is covered with dark gray quartzite . The walls are made of fair-faced concrete with rough formwork, the horizontal construction joints, from which the gradual construction in concrete layers can be read, are emphasized as a groove. The ceiling consists of a prestressed concrete grating and 49 prefabricated square concrete cassettes. Daylight only comes in through domes in nine of the ceiling cassettes above the altar area and a narrow ribbon of windows under the ceiling.

The seating follows the layout of the square room: the altar area is surrounded on three sides by benches for the community and thus takes into account the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council , which was just decided at the time of construction ; the celebrant facing the community stands on the fourth side of the altar.

The main hall is surrounded on all four sides by a lower, only three and a half meter high room; the walls of the main hall rest alone on a pillar in each of the four corners. The walls of the surrounding low parts of the room are clad with perforated bricks, the ceilings with wood for acoustic reasons. The right aisle serves as a side chapel, the Way of the Cross hangs on the wall of the low part of the room on the left. On the back wall next to the entrance there is space for the confessionals and access to the baptistery in a separate small room.

Furnishing

The altar island, the altars and the baptismal font were built with Montana granite . The Way of the Cross on the left wall of the church is the work of Edith Peres-Lethmate . The 15 stations, with the resurrection as the last, are welded from steel and equipped with figures cast in bronze. Together with the intermediate pieces between the stations, the Way of the Cross is eleven meters long and the stations are three quarters of a meter high.

The lecture cross in the chancel and the monstrance by Hans Berchtenbreiter are to be mentioned as further pieces of equipment .

Architectural guidelines

Herbert Groethuysen describes in an article in a church guide to St. Mauritius, which appeared at the time of completion, what the architects guided in the planning of the buildings and the selection of the design means.

The architects understand the emphatically simple architecture as a correspondence to the description of the liturgy as given in the liturgy constitution of the Second Vatican Council: concise and transparent, with the shine of noble simplicity.

The church building in its unadorned and modernity takes account of the architects' conviction that the world of religion is not in opposition to the world of modernity and not in opposition to life in the big city; - Opposites as they are based on Groethuysen's opinion by architects of historicism and the Heimatstyle in church building. According to Groethuysen, there is a similar misunderstanding when the most unusual, bizarre and exciting designs are chosen in order to express what is supposedly different from the religious, what is supposedly contrary to the normal life of the modern city dweller; a tendency that he sees in many modern church buildings after the Second World War.

Bells

The bells were manufactured in 1966 by the Karl Czudnochowsky bell foundry in Erding . The 24 quintals heavy Martins bell is tuned to dis', the Marien bell with 14 quintals to f sharp 'and the Michaels bell, with 10 quintals the smallest, to g sharp'.

literature

  • Catholic Parish Curate St. Mauritius Munich (Hrsg.): St. Mauritius Munich . Home country publisher Dr. Alfons Kellermeier, Landau an der Isar no year (approx. 1967)
  • T. Unterlandstättner and M. Schmöller: VHF and exposed concrete. Reconstruction in the context of urban development In: ECO houses. Attractive houses with low maintenance costs. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-421-03547-9
  • Edith Peres-Lethmate: Way of the Cross of the Catholic Parish of St. Mauritius, Munich - Bildmeditation , n.v., n.d. (approx. 1992)

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Catholic Parish Curate St. Mauritius Munich (Ed.): St. Mauritius Munich . Home country publisher Dr. Alfons Kellermeier, Landau an der Isar n.d., p. 12

Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 23.6 "  N , 11 ° 30 ′ 44.9"  E