St. Sylvester (Munich)
The Catholic parish church of St. Sylvester in Munich district of Schwabing , the former village church of Schwabing and one of the oldest church sites in today's city.
location
St. Sylvester (Biedersteiner Str. 1) is located in the former village center, now called Alt-Schwabing, near the English Garden .
history
The church was first mentioned in documents in 1315 through the description of the Freising diocese, which Schwabing lists as a branch of the parish of Sendling . However, it is very likely that Schwabing had a church built at its current location when it was first mentioned in a document in 782. The earliest structural evidence is the massive lower part of the tower up to about 12 m in height, which dates from around 1200. At that time the church was the first patron saint , the John the Baptist . Parts of this church and tower still exist today. Around 1300 the Romanesque church was extended in the Gothic style. From 1654 to 1664 the building was baroque, increasing the nave , stuccoing the church interior and building new altars. During this time, St. Ursula presumably replaced John the Baptist as the main patronage of the church. The side patron of the church was already St. Sylvester .
In 1811 the church, which at that time bore the patronage of St. Ursula, was elevated to the parish church of the now independent parish of Schwabing with 650 souls. With the inauguration of the new parish church of St. Ursula on Kaiserplatz in 1897, the patronage was transferred to the new church building and the old village church was downgraded to a branch church .
The steady population growth soon led to the planning of subsidiary parishes in Schwabing. In 1920 a curate was set up at the old Ursula Church, and in 1921 a new city parish was established under the patronage of St. Sylvester .
In order to expand the church, a new octagonal building was built on the north side of the old village church in 1925–1926, designed by Hermann Buchert in a modified neo-baroque style . The new building was consecrated on October 24, 1925 by Archbishop Michael Cardinal von Faulhaber .
Important works of art
Old church
- High altar (1655) with an altarpiece by Kaspar Amort the Elder. Ä. "The Martyrdom of St. Ursula and Her Companions";
- Side figures St. Sylvester (former patron saint of the church), St. Benno (patron saint of Munich) (Matthias Schütz, probably 1673);
- Annunciation group ( Ignaz Günther , around 1770);
- Figure of the apostle Judas Thaddäus (Ignaz Günther, around 1770);
- Busts of Saints Benedict and Barbara (Ignaz Günther, around 1770);
- Statues of Saints Nikolaus and Elisabeth ( Constantin Pader , 1647) (moved here from the abandoned Leprosy Church in 1898).
New Church
- High altar painting “Pope Sylvester kneeling in intercession for Schwabing” ( Matthäus Schiestl , 1927);
- Side figures of St. Nicholas and St. Korbinian (probably Meinrad Guggenbichler , 18th century);
- “God the Father in Exodus” (probably Christian Jorhan the Elder , 18th century);
- Casein paintings: Emperor Constantine's vision of the cross, the free practice of religion granted to Christians under the pontificate of Pope Sylvester; six scenes of the life, suffering and resurrection of Jesus Christ (Ernst Kozicz, 1939/40).
organ
The organ in the gallery of the new church was built in the organ workshop Späth from 1980. The tone contracture is mechanical, the key action electric. The instrument has 30 registers with a total of 2,161 pipes , distributed over the main work , swell and pedal .
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- Remarks
- Coupling : II / I, II / I, I / P, II / P
- Gaming table : free-standing gaming table, rocker registers
- Other playing aids : coupling manual , hand register, 3 free / 1 pedal combination , organo pleno, tongues off, swell kick , crescendo roller on
literature
- Roland Götz: City parish church St. Sylvester, Munich-Schwabing . ( erzbistum-muenchen.de [accessed on 23 August 2010]).
- Hans Rohrmann: Church of St. Sylvester Munich-Schwabing . IP Verlagsgesellschaft International Publishing GmbH, Germering 2001.
- Organ consecration in St. Sylvester - Festschrift 1980 (published by the parish council St. Sylvester, Munich)
Web links
Coordinates: 48 ° 9 ′ 40.9 ″ N , 11 ° 35 ′ 32.6 ″ E