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The catholic branch church pc. George is the former village church of elbow living and to 1934 of their religious center. Today it is particularly well-known for their cemetery, on which many prominent ones found their last peace.

Situation

Pc. George (Bogenhausener church square 1) is because of the Isarhochufer in the north of the former village center. Today west the Montgelasstrasse is calm and idyllisch their situation.

History

Over the origin of the church little is well-known. The tower basement, which comes from the lateRoman building of predecessors, is the oldest certification of a church in elbow living. Probably in the first half 15. Century the old choir was replaced by a lategothical new building, which exisitiert until today.

1759 initierten the Bogenhausener at that time minister Franz George Riedl and count August Joseph of which possessed close of the church the renewal of the church ship and won Johann Michael Fischer as architects. The development to the Rococo church began 1766. After Fischer's death in took over Balthasar Trischberger the construction supervision gel-calibrate year and accomplished the heightening and a curvature. Received the simple hall of the municipality area just like the altar area a flat dome. The construction work was completed 1768. 1777 received the tower its doubly constricted bulb, in the same year the equipment of the church were completed.

By the inauguration of the parish church holy 1934 pc. George its status lost blood as parish church and is since then branch of holy blood.

In the Second World War almost intact, the church was carried back in up to the year 2000 a lasting overall renovation again to the original color design of Fischer.

Pc. George is nut/mother church for the whole area on the right of the Isar between the Menterschwaige, and hair.

Important works of art

  • High altar (in form of a baroque stage altar with the sculptures of the Hl. George as as well as at the sides the holy Donatus and Irene (Johann Baptist Straub, 1770-1773);
  • Choir hl. George is accepted to the sky"” (Johann Philipp Helterhof, 1767/68);
  • of the municipality area "“the Martyrium of the Hl. George"” (Johann Philipp Helterhof, 1767/68);
  • Pulpit (Ignaz 1770-1773);
  • Korbiniansaltar (Ignaz 1770-1773));
  • Throne end of Madonna (unknown, 1628)

Bogenhausener cemetery

The pc. George surrounding Dorfriedhof, today Bogenhausener cemetery mentioned, became since the center 20. Century for the preferential funeral place of prominent artists. Under others found here their last peace:

  • Director Rainer Werner barrel binder
  • Actor Helmut Fischer
  • Writer Oskar Maria count
  • Journalist William living stone
  • Caricaturist Ernst
  • Writer Erich
  • Actress Liesl Karl city (Elizabeth Wellano)
  • Conductor Hans RTS shrubshrub RTS shrubs
  • Authoress Annette Kolb
  • the astronomer and director/conductor of the observatory in elbow living/Munich Johann of Lamont.
  • Actor Walter Sedlmayr
  • Actor Peter Vogel
  • Actor Rudolf bird
  • Actor Carl Wery
  • Sculptor Hans wow

Other

  • Pater Alfred Delp SJ was in the 1930er years a church rector in pc. George. In the parsonage building of pc. George it came to meetings of the Kreisauer of circle. Also Delp was arrested after a morning fair in pc. George on 28 July 1944.

Literature

  • Klaus Gallas: Munich. Of the welfischen establishment Heinrichs of the lion up to the present: Art, culture, history. Cologne: DuMont 1979, ISBN 3-7701-1094-3 (DuMont documents: DuMont art travel guide)
  • Norbert dear: Pc. George in Munich elbow living. A village church highly over the Isarufer as important work of art and their cemetery as last of famous residents of Munich. Munich: Ehrenwirth 1987, ISBN 3-431-02967-1

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