St. Thomas Apostel (Munich)
The Catholic Church of St. Thomas Apostle in Munich district Johanneskirchen was of cardinal on December 2, 1973 Julius Döpfner inaugurated . It is part of a parish center that was planned by the architect CF Raue as a multi-purpose building and, in addition to the church, also includes the Thomas Chapel, the rectory, the parish hall, various meeting rooms and the apartments of the pastor and the sacristan's family. The church interior is characterized by its simple, clear architecture: It is consistently oriented towards the center, towards the altar. The artistic design of the church was in the hands of the sculptor Max Faller , Munich. The organ was built by Rudolf von Beckerath Orgelbau , Hamburg. It has 18 stops on two manuals and a pedal. 1987–1989 four monumental pictures by the painter Karl Köhler were added. In 2010, Köhler's pictures were replaced in favor of a simple Christ corpus on the wall behind the altar.
The name St. Thomas refers to the apostle Thomas .
history
The arrival of many young families in the late 1960s required a new pastoral care center in the Oberföhring-Ost and Johanneskirchen area. In 1968 a new curate was separated from the mother parish of St. Lorenz .
The St. Thomas kindergarten was inaugurated in 1971 as the first construction project. Only then was the community center built (inauguration in 1973).
In 1985, the St. Thomas Church Foundation built the St. Johannes Kindergarten in the area of the Garden City of Johanneskirchen , in order to be able to offer local kindergarten places for the numerous children of the settlement, which was newly established in 1984.
After more than a year of construction, the new entrance building (round building) was inaugurated on June 28, 1998 by the pastor Wilfried Sußbauer.
This two-storey glass and steel construction by the architect Christian Raupach , which was erected after the old concrete staircase was demolished for renovation, serves as a meeting place and in the basement multi-purpose room offers many groups in the community a home. The inside of the building is dominated by a monochrome work of art by the painter Alfons Lachauer , also due to its transparent structure . Two wooden staircases clinging to the inside of the round building and a glazed transition lead to the church on the first floor of the community center.
Pastor
Wilfried Sussbauer
In the summer of 2002, the founding pastor Wilfried Sußbauer left the community after more than 33 years in office and went into retirement. He started as a curate in the newly established St. Thomas Curate on October 1, 1968 and became its first pastor in 1973. At his instigation, the entrance area (rotunda) of St. Thomas was built, in which evening music and cabaret events take place regularly. The initiation and initiation of the renovation of the west wing (parish office, apartments and youth rooms), as well as an extensive data infrastructure, were also tackled by him, the work of which was completed by the end of 2002. From autumn 2002 he continued to work as a priest in pastoral care (the parish church Patrona Bavariae) in Oberschleißheim near Munich. On September 23, 2011, Pastor Wilfried Sußbauer closed his eyes forever after a short illness in Munich.
Gregor Stratmann
The second pastor of the parish, Gregor Stratmann , took up his duties in November 2002 and left the parish on August 31, 2011 to take on new tasks in Budapest I. Wasserstadt, Győr / Raab and Solymár / Schaumar in Hungary. There he is assigned to the parish of St. Elisabeth in Budapest as a pastor and takes care of the German-speaking Catholic pastoral care of Germans abroad and Germans from Hungary. He is released from his home diocese of Münster until August 30, 2016.
Pastor G. Stratmann had the church in Munich, along with the community center (south wing) and its associated infrastructure, extensively renovated. This also included an extensive redesign of the church interior. After nine months of construction, the renovated and redesigned south wing of the community center was inaugurated by Pastor Gregor Stratmann on January 11, 2004. During his term of office there was also extensive work on the implementation of the Second Ecumenical Church Congress 2010 (in Munich), which was actively supported by the parishioners.
Willi Huber
From October 2011, Pastor Willi Huber will lead a new parish association to be formed from the parishes of St. Lorenz and St. Thomas. On October 15, 2011, it was installed in St. Thomas by the dean of the Bogenhausen dean's office, Pastor Engelbert von der Lippe. After his time as chaplain in Unterhaching, Willi Huber was pastor in St. Ulrich, Laim, and heads the diocese-wide community of faith community Neuer Weg , which is part of the “Charismatic Renewal in the Catholic Church” movement.
Parish
In 2008 the number of parish members was about 6300. The pastor takes care of the pastoral care in cooperation with the parish officer Claudia Schmeil, the deacon Marek Nawrocki and the two retirement chaplains Herbert Krist and Father Bernhard Grom SJ. For the care of socially disadvantaged parishioners, the Association for Pastoral-Social Care St. Thomas e. V. Under the direction of the church musician Dieter Stadlbauer there are several choirs in the parish for different age groups.
Parish Association St. Thomas St. Lorenz
On January 20, 2013 the Parish Association of St. Thomas and St. Lorenz was founded. The merger of the two parishes was celebrated with a festive service under the direction of Episcopal Vicar Rupert Graf zu Stolberg.
Branch church
The parish also includes the old village church of St. Johann Baptist in Johanneskirchen, whose beginnings go back to the early 9th century. Ignaz Günther gave the originally Romanesque building its rococo furnishings and high altar. The church is considered an art-historical gem and is a popular wedding church.
Web links
- www.st-thomas-lorenz.de - Homepage of the parish association St. Thomas and St. Lorenz.
- Survey on St. Thomas St. Thomas from the point of view of various Johanneskirchner and Oberföhringer
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://merkurtz.trauer.de/Wilfried-Sussbauer/Zeitungsanendung/478560.html ( Memento from July 10, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ http://www.elisabeth.hu/
- ↑ http://kirchensite.de/aktuelles/bistum-aktuell/personalien/news-personalien/date/2011/02/21/gregor-stratmann-wird-freigracht/?type=98&cHash=8f1e0dc0d7
- ↑ http://www.st-ulrich-laim.de/
- ↑ http://www.gem-nw.de/
- ↑ http://www.ernerung.de/
Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 10 ″ N , 11 ° 38 ′ 8 ″ E