To the Holy Guardian Angels (Eichenau)
The Church of the Holy Guardian Angels is the Catholic parish church in Eichenau in the Upper Bavarian district of Fürstenfeldbruck .
history
Today's municipality Eichenau was originally part of the municipality of Alling . At the beginning of the 20th century, Eichenau experienced an enormous boom. Tensions arose between the residents of the two settlements, which became more and more acute, especially in the 1920s. The community only became independent on April 1, 1957.
From May 20, 1920, the St. Georg chapel in Roggenstein was used again for church services. On the same day, a church building association was formed spontaneously , which was officially entered in the register of associations on December 20th . In 1922 a church foundation was established, which in the same year received the necessary land from the Eichenau building cooperative .
Originally, the Archangel Michael was intended to be the church patron ; it was only later that it was decided to rename it a Guardian Angel Church .
On May 27, 1925, the church administration formally decided to have the church and rectory built according to the plans of the Munich architect Franz Xaver Huf .
The first groundbreaking for the rectory took place at the end of August 1925, at the same time the foundation work on the church began. The foundation stone for the church was officially laid on Easter Monday of the following year , but by then the masonry work was well advanced. On May 31st, the rectory was ready to move into.
The consecration took Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber of All Saints before 1926th However, the tower was not completed until a few weeks later. At Christmas 1926, the three steel bells supplied by Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG in Bochum were able to call the faithful to mass for the first time.
The church officially still belonged to the parish Alling; only on June 9, 1946 (Whitsun) was Eichenau raised to an independent parish by Cardinal Faulhaber. Today the Eichenau Guardian Angel Congregation and the Allingen parish of Mary's Birth form the Eichenau-Alling Parish Association .
description
The Eichenau parish church was built in the neo-baroque style. The six-bay nave is spanned by a wooden barrel vault. To the north of the main nave there is a one-story side chapel , to the north of the choir a two-story sacristy . At the southeast corner of the nave there is a single tower with an onion dome , to which the rectory adjoins directly to the south .
The nave is about 35 meters long and 12.65 meters wide with a vault height of 10.8 meters. The choir measures 8.50 × 7.20 meters and is 9.20 meters high. The side chapel has a footprint of 9 × 3.10 meters.
Furnishing
From the beginning, the church not only had a high altar , but also a Marienaltar and a Sacred Heart altar that had been set up left and right of the choir arch. As early as 1928, the two side altars were replaced by significantly larger ones, which were a gift from the community in Viechtach . Since the proportions of the high altar no longer matched the side altars, an old altar was acquired by the Prackenbach community in 1938 and unveiled at Christmas after a renovation. When Dorothea Brockmann a new altarpiece was commissioned and unveiled on 19 November 1939th In keeping with the church patronage , an inscription was also placed above the choir arch:
After the Second Vatican Council , the furnishings of the church with the three altars no longer met the requirements of the Reformed liturgy . The church was therefore fundamentally redesigned. The three altars were removed and replaced by a simple stone folk altar . The middle choir window, which was previously partially covered by the high altar, was extended downwards and adapted to the other choir windows. A free-floating bronze cross based on a design by Josef Baumgartner was hung above the altar . Instead of the pulpit , the church received an ambo . The altar consecration and the reopening of the church was carried out on November 3, 1967 by Auxiliary Bishop Johannes Neuhäusler .
In 1975 a way of the cross was attached to the inner walls of the nave , which was designed by the Eichenau artist Michael M. Lutz . As a special feature, in addition to the usual 14 stations, it has an additional one that shows the resurrection of Jesus Christ .
For the 50th anniversary of the church , the church received a wrought iron tabernacle from Manfred Bergmeister from Ebersberg .
A mission cross from 1936 was hung above the people's altar instead of the bronze cross , which was supplemented by two floating angels during the renovation in 1980. At the same time, the figures of Saints Florian and Sebastian from the original high altar were installed in the apse , as well as a figure of Patrona Bavariae from the environment of the sculptor Johann Baptist Straub . In addition, the old organ was replaced by a new one (see below).
The side chapel was redesigned in 1999/2000. In 2000, the three steel bells from 1926 were finally replaced by four new ones made of bronze , which had been cast by the famous Rudolf Perner bell foundry in Passau.
organ
The slider organ in the church today was built in 1980 by the Munich organ builder Wilhelm Stöberl and rebuilt and expanded by Christoph Kaps in 1992 and 2001 . It has 24 registers on two manuals plus a pedal . The prospectus comes from the Eichenau architect Hans Arnold.
Others
Both the church and the rectory are registered as architectural monuments in the list of monuments of the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments .
A parish hall was built to the west and southwest of the church in 1971 , and was extensively renovated and expanded by 2005. The Catholic kindergarten St. Elisabeth is also located near the church .
literature
- Hejo Busley : The Catholic Church . In: Hejo Busley, Angelika Schuster-Fox, Michael Gumtau (eds.): History in the shadow of a big city. Eichenau 1907-2007 , Herbert Utz Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-8316-0717-4
Web links
- Catholic parish "To the Hl. Guardian Angels" on the website of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising
Individual evidence
- ↑ Angelika Schuster-Fox: Alling and Eichenau in: Hejo Busley, Angelika Schuster-Fox, Michael Gumtau (ed.): History in the shadow of a big city. Eichenau 1907-2007 , Herbert Utz Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-8316-0717-4
- ↑ according to the Septuagint Vulgate count then used by the Catholics
- ↑ Architectural monuments Eichenau , list of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation