Stephanuskirche (Munich)
The Stephanuskirche is an Evangelical Lutheran church in the Munich district of Nymphenburg .
building
The Stephanuskirche was built between 1936 and 1938 according to plans by German Bestelmeyer with echoes of the neo-Romanesque arched style. The building is made of a raw brick construction, with markedly coarse filling of the joints. The westwerk similar massive, nine meters wide tower on the north side is integrated into the building: A very high hipped reached about 26 meters, the height of the tower, with a pointed gable closes. The roof is drawn down very far and thus forms a dominant feature - the eaves height of the building is around nine meters, almost only a third of the total height. The tower is crowned by a small roof turret .
The inscription above the main portal reads "Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away". In the tympanum of the shell limestone portal there is a depiction of the teaching Christ by Hans Vogl .
To the east, the parish hall and rectory follow in a matching style. Together the buildings form a small church square.
The church, parish hall and rectory are under monument protection
Interior and equipment
The interior of the church is almost square, it is separated from the high - unused - attic by a wood-paneled flat ceiling . The sanctuary - furnished with figures by the sculptor Wilhelm von Rechenberg - is around seven meters less than half as wide as the main room. The walls are plastered white and divided by pillars . The gallery extends over three walls, the parapet fields were designed by Andreas Lang, Oberammergau.
The font , pulpit and altar are made of Ruhpolding marble . Instead of the ocular window by Hermann Kaspar that was lost in the war , the glass window by Karl-Heinz Frettlöh, based on Kaspar's execution, depicts Christ riding on a rainbow, ruling the world; it is surrounded with the symbols of the four evangelists , with the human being for Matthew , the lion for Mark , the bull for Luke and the eagle for John . The bridal chapel of the church is located south of the tower.
The organ was built in 1969 by Detlef Kleuker . It had 36 registers on three manuals and a pedal . In 2003 it was completely overhauled by Christoph Kaps and expanded to 40 registers.
There is a fountain in front of the parish hall, depicting the spies sent to the Promised Land . The fountain is the work of the sculptor Roland von Bohr.
history
The architect German Bestelmeyer donated the small bell in the roof turret to the Stephanuskirche. The octagonal fountain he designed on Kirchplatz - replaced by today's one in 1963 - had squirrel figures and swastikas engraved on the side walls ; it was destroyed in World War II. The parsonage adjoining the church as a wing building was also badly damaged on its north side. In an air raid in July 1944, the pastor of St. Stephen's Church and five other people were killed. The four larger bells had already been confiscated and melted down in 1942. The original bell with the disposition c 'es' f 'as' was cast by the Schilling foundry in Apolda. In 1953 the confiscated bells with the chimes es' and as' could be replaced and in 1960 the f 'bell. In April 2015 the fourth and last missing c'-bell was cast by the bell foundry Bachert Karlsruhe GmbH .
In 2012/2013 the roof structure of the church was extensively renovated and the roof re-covered. In 2014 the forecourt of the church was redesigned.
Chaplain
- Pastor Sabine Arzberger (Management)
- Pastor Herrmann Bethke
- Pastor Irmgard Wolf-Erdt (clinic pastoral care)
- Deacon in Lisanna purse
literature
- Bavarian Architects and Engineers Association (ed.): Munich and its buildings after 1912. Bruckmann, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-7654-1915-X
- Matthias Dörrich (ed.): The Stephanuskirche 1938-2008. A roof for generations , supplement to the parish letter of the Stephanuskirche Nymphenburg-Neuhausen spring 2008, Munich 2008.
- Thomas Hauzenberger: The Stephanuskirche and its architect German Bestelmeyer , in: Neuhauser Werkstatt-Nachrichten, Issue 18, Summer 2007, ISSN 1436-5987 , pp. 28–31.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 9 ′ 12.3 ″ N , 11 ° 31 ′ 8 ″ E