St. Benno's Church, Munich

St. Benno in Munich- Neuhausen.

Parish Church

The Catholic parish church of St. Benno is the second Catholic parish church of Munich Maxvorstadt with a Sprengel in Neuhausen. It lies on the western edge of the Maxvorstadt and somewhat south of the former barracks Munich district, which stretched from the Leonrodstraße / Dachauerstraße to Winzererstraße. The St. Benno 's Church is one next to the parish church of St. Anna im Lehel the most convincing neo-Romanesque religious buildings of the 19th century.

In addition, she is the only parish church in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising, which carries the patronal feast of the saint and the patron saint of Munich Benno of Meissen. This is remarkable, since participated since the transfer of the remains in 1576, first in the residence and from 1580 in the Frauenkirche, the pilgrimages to the relics of St. Benno soon to boom.

History

The steady increase in population in Munich had the Maxvorstadt grow rapidly. Already in 1883 the growth was so far advanced that Archbishop Anton Steichele called three other parishes. In order to facilitate the construction of these three parish churches of St. Benno in Maxvorstadt, St. Paul at the Theresienwiese ( inaugurated in 1906 ) and St. Maximilian in Glockenbachviertel ( inaugurated in 1908 ), the National Association for church building in Munich, was called Central Church Building Association founded, the should build all three houses of worship.

In the last expansion stage, which covered the western part of the Maxvorstadt on the border with Neuhausen and was completed by 1900, the establishment of a new parish was as urban planning and spiritual center of the remote for that time zone, which also included parts of Neuhausen, promoted. The building donated the ore caster Ferdinand von Miller (1813-1887) as a reward for the successful casting of Bavaria in 1850. With the planning of the church, the young architect Leonhard Romeis was commissioned. With great support from the Central Church Building Association and private donations and foundations of the Wittelsbach royal family ( among other things designed as Ziboriumsaltar high altar by Prince Regent Luitpold ), planning and construction of the church were promoted. Foundation stone was laid on the feast of St. Benno on June 16, 1888. After only seven years of construction, St. Benno be inaugurated on 13 October 1895 by Archbishop Anthony of Thoma.

Destroyed in 1944 by bombings, the church was built in the years 1947 to 1953 against the former habit faithfully restored; only the frescoes are completely lost.

Program and design

Similar to Gabriel von Seidl for the parish church of St. Anna im Lehel also chose Leonhard Romeis a Neo-Romanesque style, the particular inspired by the Rhenish Romanesque Kaiser Dome. This is mainly for political reasons. After the founding of the German Empire in 1871 was seen in the Romanesque style one that emphasizes loyalty to the dynastic rule and at the same time constructed a continuity with the Holy Roman Empire of the Middle Ages. It is therefore not surprising that the foundation stone laying only 34 -year-old Romeis put the emphasis of his studies mainly on the Rhenish Romanesque and for stays in Italy dynastic architectural examples studied that went into St. Benno. So the St. Benno 's Church is the beginning of a series of neo-Romanesque church new buildings, of which especially the parish church of St. Anna im Lehel and St. Maximilian should be mentioned in Munich's Isar suburb.

St. Benno has the form of a three-aisled basilica. The clad with limestone brick building with its cruciform layout, semi-circular closed cross houses an octagonal crossing tower with apse and handling show the features of Rhenish Romanesque: A powerful western facade with five-storey, 64 -meter high twin towers has as its center the main portal with figures of prophets to his Seitendwänden and above the tympanum and two high reliefs of Saints Martin and George; the bronze door with parables from the New Testament is inspired by her example at Hildesheim Cathedral; finally complete Kappel parts mounted on the outer sides of the towers and the octagonal lantern tower the image of a cathedral of the Rhine late Romanesque.

Equipment

High altar

The high altar was donated by Prince Regent Luitpold and built as Ziboriumsaltar: a square of column -supported canopy at the four corners seated figure of the Evangelists and their symbols ( Hess ), about an eight- sided dome; the altar designed under the canopy as a reliquary, on both sides of the tabernacle bronze reliefs of Saint Benno and Korbinian ( Heinrich Wadere ) and the four Holy family of the founder ( Luitpold, Ludwig, Augusta and Theresa).

Organ

Following the destruction in 1944, the Maerz organ, Op 352 was replaced by a new building of Anton Schwenk. 1965 Advanced Wilhelm Stöberl the organ with three manuals and pedal to 56 registers.

Bells

Seven bells hanging on the towers of St. Benno 's Church, where the large Benno and Marie Bell alone in the east tower mounted (with sundial ); they signaled only on high feast days and one of the bells tontiefsten Munich after the anniversary of the Old Bell Peters and the Salvator bell Mariahilfkirche in the floodplain. The two bells cast in 1894 Joseph and Mary are the rest of the original Geläuts. These two bells sounded the Uhrschlag. Every Saturday by 15 clock is rung with the six bells of the west tower (bell 2-7) for five minutes Sunday.

Environment and branch church

Front of the church, the aluminum sculpture fish with key of Iskender Yediler. According to legend was Bishop Benno of Meissen Cathedral the key, which he had thrown on the run in the same, after his return in the belly of a freshly caught fish again.

Furthermore, there's the 11.6 -meter-high Benno column of red porphyry, which supports the 1910 and created 3 meter high bronze figure of St. Benno.

St. Barbara in the near Schwabing- West is the branch church of St. Benno.