Transfiguration of Christ (Rohrbach)

Church of the Transfiguration of Christ in Rohrbach

The Catholic parish church of the Transfiguration of Christ in Rohrbach in the Hallertau was built from 1959 to 1961 based on designs by the Munich architect Alexander von Branca . It is located south of the castle on a hill and can be seen from afar from the Ilm valley . The patronage is August 6th.

history

Interior of the Church of the Transfiguration of Christ

After the essentially Romanesque church of St. John the Baptist had become too small due to the increase in the number of inhabitants in Rohrbach, Alexander von Branca presented the design for a new building in 1957. The churches of St. Arsatius in Ilmmünster and the San Antimo church near Montalcino in Tuscany served as models .

The church building with its clear design is about 36 m long, 24 m wide and 15 m high. It is a plastered concrete building in the style of a basilica with a flat gable roof that ends with the semicircular apse to the east. The side walls are windowless; the interior of the church is illuminated by narrow window strips in the open roof construction. Above the choir there is a ceiling window that illuminates the chancel with daylight and thus places it in the center of the interior of the church. The design for the furnishings in the same style also comes from Alexander von Branca. The sculptures are important works from the 16th to 18th centuries. Century. They were moved from St. John's Church to the new building in 1961.

The church is accessed from the west through a forecourt. This is bordered in the north by a cloister to which the bell tower adjoins. The church is a protected architectural monument .

literature

• Jolanda Drexler-Herold, Angelika Wegener-Hüssen: Landkreis Pfaffenhofen ad Ilm (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.19 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-87490-570-5 .

Web links

• Conversion 2007 to 2012 (accessed October 22, 2017)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Diocese of Augsburg
2. ^ Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments . Bayern IV: Munich and Upper Bavaria, special edition 1990, p. 1025

Coordinates: 48 ° 36 '40.8 "  N , 11 ° 33' 44.6"  E