St. Nikolaus (Englschalking)

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St. Nicholas Church
View from the southwest
Arched windows in the choir

St. Nikolaus is a late Romanesque church building in Munich that is consecrated to St. Nicholas of Myra . It is located in the Englschalking district in the Bogenhausen district and is a branch church of the parish of St. Emmeram . The Nikolauskirche is one of the protected architectural monuments in Bavaria.

history

St. Nicholas was probably built around 1300 in the style of the transition from Romanesque to early Gothic . In 1659 the windows were enlarged and the interior of the church was given a baroque style .

In 1856 the church was renovated, but the planned addition of a tower in 1896 was not implemented. During a further renovation in 1956, the baroque side altars, the pulpit and the organ gallery had to be removed because they had been destroyed by moisture.

In 1969 the church, whose brick walls had previously stood directly on the clay floor, was provided with a foundation and drained. On this occasion, remains of late Gothic wall paintings depicting the symbols of the evangelists were discovered in the reveal of the choir arch .

architecture

The church building consists of a single nave nave with a flat ceiling from 1969 and a retracted, rectangular closed choir . A narrow arched window has been cut into the east wall of the choir. A single-storey roof turret with a pyramid roof sits on the slightly elevated east gable of the nave .

Furnishing

  • The high altar dates from 1659, the time the church was redesigned in Baroque style. The altar sheet with the depiction of St. Nicholas is marked with the year 1872 and bears the signature "KS Wild". On both sides of the high altar there are statues of St. Korbinian , the first bishop of Freising , and St. Wolfgang .
  • A relief representation of St. Anne of wood comes from the period around the 1520th

graveyard

The church is surrounded by a walled cemetery. Among the citizens of Englschalking buried there are Wilhelm Flaschträger , the last mayor of Daglfing , and Ernst Rattenhuber , the first Bavarian Minister of Agriculture after the Second World War .

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Bayern IV: Munich and Upper Bavaria. 2nd edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-422-03010-7 , pp. 723-724.
  • Willibald Karl (Ed.): Villages on the brick land . Daglfing-Denning-Englschalking-Johanneskirchen-Zamdorf. Buchendorfer Verlag, Munich 2002, ISBN 978-3-934036-90-1 .
  • Gottfried Weber: The Romanesque in Upper Bavaria. Gondrom Verlag, Bindlach 1990, ISBN 3-8112-0703-2 , p. 179.

Web links

Commons : St. Nicholas  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • St. Nikolaus on the website of the Association for District Culture in the Munich Northeast eV

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments for Munich (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, monument number D-1-62-000-1688 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 9 ′ 29 ″  N , 11 ° 38 ′ 36 ″  E