Zacchaeus Church (Sauerlach)
The Zachäuskirche is an Evangelical Lutheran parish church in the Upper Bavarian community of Sauerlach in the Munich district . Together with the Blessing Church in Holzkirchen , it belongs as a district to the Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of Holzkirchen, which in turn is part of the Evangelical Lutheran Dean's Office in Bad Tölz .
On the history of Protestantism in Sauerlach
The Sauerlacher had their first contact with Protestants in 1632, when Swedish soldiers under Gustav II Adolf plundered the area during the Thirty Years' War . A hundred years later, Protestant Christians reappeared in Sauerlach: In the parish chronicle it is reported that in 1732 around 500–900 Protestant farmers from Salzburg and the Pinzgau moved three times through Otterfing , Sauerlach and Faistenhaar , under pressure from Salzburg's Archbishop Leopold Anton von Firmian had to leave their home. There are no further reports of Evangelicals in Sauerlach from the following decades. How Protestantism was still assessed in the 19th century can be seen in the tradition of the water bird game, when Martin Luther and his wife Katharina von Bora were carried through the village in Sauerlach in 1840 as mock figures.
With the liberalization policy of the Bavarian royal house - the Bavarian kings Maximilian I Joseph , Ludwig I and Maximilian II Joseph had each married Protestant princesses - Protestants were finally able to settle in Upper Bavaria. The first Protestant family came to Sauerlach with the establishment of the forestry office in 1871. It was the head of the forestry office, chief forester Eduard von Staudt jun. with his family.
Sauerlach had belonged to the Wolfratshausen district court since 1902 , which at that time was looked after by travel preachers from the St. Markus parish in Munich. Even if the Sauerlacher belonged to Munich , they preferred to orientate themselves towards Holzkirchen, as there were no other Protestant congregations in the Hachinger Tal. This was put on record in 1910 when the Gräßle and Wacker families from Otterloh refused to pay the church fees to the parish of St. Paulus in Munich-Perlach, to which they belonged according to the church's territorial division. Because they went to church services in Holzkirchen, and at least for the Gräßle family it was the community where their child was baptized.
Clarity was finally created on November 30, 1923, when the Holzkirchen travel preacher position became a separate daughter congregation, which belonged to the parish of Bad Tölz and later to Miesbach . From the district office Wolfratshausen came municipalities Arget , oak Hausen , Endlhausen , Linden, Oberbiberg , Otterfing and Sauerlach added. All of them officially belonged to the parish of St. Markus in Munich. With the exception of Oberbiberg, which joined Oberhaching in the 1970s, this new division is still in place today. The number of evangelicals remained fairly constant at around 30 before the Second World War . You either came to Sauerlach to work and then left again, or you married into one of the local families. Then the children were usually baptized Roman Catholics , so that the Evangelical Lutheran community did not grow.
After the end of the war in 1945, the Free State of Bavaria took in large numbers of refugees from East and West Prussia , Pomerania , Danzig and the Sudetenland . Many Protestants also came to the Sauerlach community. The economic upswing in and around the state capital Munich in particular resulted in brisk construction activity and an increased influx of Protestant Christians in Sauerlach. Thus the number of Protestants rose rapidly. The numerical development of the Evangelicals has been recorded since 1857: In Sauerlach and Arget there were only eight Evangelicals in 1871, around 1900 there were just 15. In 1925 there were 28 Evangelicals, in 1996 it was 850 and in mid-2013 there was the Evangelical community has grown to around 1100 members.
Construction, architecture and equipment
On Sunday, November 10, 1962, Pastor Herwig Herr laid the foundation stone of the Zacchaeus Church together with Dean Heinrich Renner during an outdoor service. In addition to current newspapers and coins, a document was also built into the foundation of today's altar . The Gustav-Adolf-Werk contributed 10,000 Deutsche Mark to finance the construction. The topping-out ceremony was celebrated on Thursday, April 25, 1963, and the church was consecrated a good six months later, on November 10, 1963.
The steep, open gable roof is covered with shingles, clad with wood on the inside and covers an almost square church space. The altar stands on the eastern gable wall and is adorned with a wall hanging in liturgical colors and a bronze altar cross by the blacksmith Manfred Bergmeister. On the left there is also the ambo , a pulpit for biblical readings. The altar, the ambo and the baptismal font were designed by Franz Lichtblau , the architect of the Zacchaeus Church. Five rows of benches in the nave and two wall benches offer a total of 85 seats. The church interior itself is illuminated by three large side windows.
A sgraffito on the parapet of the gallery shows scenes from the biblical story of Zacchaeus and, like the wall hanging behind the altar, was created by the painter and graphic artist Hubert Distler . The access to the community room and other smaller ancillary rooms is located under the gallery.
In the south-west of the church there is a small sacristy , through which one can access the former sacristan's house. After a renovation, the parish office and two meeting rooms are located there. Between the passage to the church and the former sacristan's house, flower beds and benches invite you to linger. A mulberry fig tree was also planted here to commemorate the encounter between Jesus Christ and the short tax collector Zacchaeus.
The small church tower grows on the west gable from a vertical concrete staircase that stands on its own foundation plate and is anchored again to the gallery. The turret carries a bell at the acute spire of wood and crowns the actual church. The bell was cast on May 16, 1963 in the presence of the parishioners in Erding. On the spire there is a cross visible from afar at a lofty height of 20 meters.
On May 30, 1966 the organ was consecrated by Dean Heinrich Renner. It was an exhibit from the Stöberl company from Munich.
Others
The following table gives an overview of the Evangelical Lutheran pastors in Sauerlach
| Surname | Start of office | End of office |
|---|---|---|
| Herwig Herr | September 1, 1951 | November 1, 1982 |
| Thomas Reissig | November 1, 1982 | April 20, 1986 |
| Gerhard Heinrich | August 1, 1986 | November 30, 1990 |
| Udo Schmoll | February 1, 1991 | August 31, 1992 |
| Roland Pelican | February 1, 1993 | August 31, 1997 |
| Ludwig Scherer | January 1, 1999 | March 15, 2007 |
| Peer Mickluhn | since October 1, 2007 |
literature
- Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of Holzkirchen (Ed.): 50 Years of Zacchaeus Church Sauerlach , Sauerlach 2013.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Karl-Christian Schilffarth: Development of the Evangelical-Lutheran community in Sauerlach . In: Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of Holzkirchen (ed.): 50 years of Zacchaeus Church in Sauerlach . Sauerlach 2013, p. 12 f .
- ↑ Laying of the foundation stone . In: Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of Holzkirchen (ed.): 50 years of Zacchaeus Church in Sauerlach . Sauerlach 2013, p. 34 .
- ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung: From the Bavarian Oberland. Zacchaeus Church inaugurated . No. 276 . Munich November 18, 1963, p. 17 .
- ↑ The initiation . In: Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of Holzkirchen (ed.): 50 years of Zacchaeus Church . Sauerlach 2013, p. 38 .
- ↑ The Zacchaeus Church in Sauerlach. In: www.holzkirchen-evangelisch.de. The Evangelical Lutheran Parish of Holzkirchen, accessed on December 11, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c The building ensemble . In: Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of Holzkirchen (ed.): 50 years of Zacchaeus Church in Sauerlach . Sauerlach 2013, p. 35 .
- ↑ The building ensemble . In: Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of Holzkirchen (ed.): 50 years of Zacchaeus Church in Sauerlach . Sauerlach 2013, p. 36 .
- ↑ The organ . In: Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of Holzkirchen (ed.): 50 years of Zacchaeus Church in Sauerlach . Sauerlach 2013, p. 37 .
Coordinates: 47 ° 58 ′ 36.1 ″ N , 11 ° 39 ′ 2.8 ″ E