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Seeshaupt: A linden tree for the church jubilee

2020-11-26T03:45:14.251Z


The Protestant church in Seeshaupt was consecrated 85 years ago. The anniversary will be celebrated with a church service and a linden tree will be planted as a souvenir. The beginnings in the Catholic town were modest back then.


The Protestant church in Seeshaupt was consecrated 85 years ago.

The anniversary will be celebrated with a church service and a linden tree will be planted as a souvenir.

The beginnings in the Catholic town were modest back then.

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Evangelical in Seeshaupt was not that easy in the past: “We Lutheran children often had to let ourselves be screwed,” said Herta Veitinger and her cousin Helene Grahammer.

The two women, who have since died, belonged to the “Protestant original cell” of Seeshaupt.

It goes without saying that they had to leave the classroom during Catholic religious instruction;

the evangelical religion class took place sometime in the afternoon.

Many Protestants were among the bombed-out urbanites and the refugees from the eastern regions who settled in Seeshaupt.

The small group of almost 50 Evangelicals around 1925 has grown into a congregation with around 650 members.

The Protestant church was built in 1935 as a branch church of the Penzberg community;

so she is still quite young for a church.

In terms of art history, the simple church near the train station is not exactly a sight.

A new sacred building, however, two years after Hitler came to power, was not a matter of course at the time.

It is evidence of a non-conforming community and its upright pastor, Vicar Karl Steinbauer, who was sent to the concentration camp as the only Protestant pastor of the Bavarian regional church because of his clear stance against the Nazi regime.

The church council and the community of Penzberg-Seeshaupt-Kochel were almost united behind him and his family.

The beginnings in the predominantly Catholic Seeshaupt were rather modest: First, the crowd of Protestants gathered in an adjoining room of the Hotel Post, then from 1922 in the school house for regular church services.

Because they included such wealthy citizens as Baron von Simolin from Schloss Seeseiten, Baron von Wendland from Schloss Bernried (he was also the builder of the Seehotel, today the “Moussonhaus” is in its place), the von Herrmann family, the von Kaufmann family and the couple Schroer, the wish for a church of their own could be realized.

The “Kapellenbauverein” was founded to finance this.

“With great patience, mites were amalgamated” (from “Bayrisches Land”, November 1935) until the association had the necessary capital.

The foundation stone was laid on the building site donated by the von Simolin family on July 28, 1935, and Vicar Karl Steinbauer inaugurated the small church on November 24 of the same year.

The clergyman, who was critical of the regime, attached great importance to delivering the sermon himself and not - as the "etiquette" would have required - Senior Church Councilor Daumiller, who was only supposed to do the ordination.

The church was built according to the plans of the Munich architect Max Unschehre, "and its down-to-earth external shape blends in quite harmoniously with the beautiful landscape of Lake Starnberg," said the Weilheimer Tagblatt at the time.

The artistic interior design was entrusted to the sculptor Freiherr von Rechenberg, who made the font, pulpit, candlesticks and the earlier altarpiece.

However, the naked Eva in the representation of paradise had so displeased the worshipers that after years of back and forth Professor Max Hoene was commissioned with a redesign;

its carved triptych has been hanging over the altar since 1942.

The consecration of the Evangelical Church in Seeshaupt, which took place 85 years ago, is to be celebrated with a service on Sunday, November 29th.

It starts at 10.30 a.m., but has to take place in the open air due to the corona restrictions.

A linden tree will be planted to commemorate the church anniversary - to replace the birch that had to be felled last spring.

There is also a small exhibition that looks back on the laying of the foundation stone on July 28, 1935.

Because the church roof is no longer wind and weatherproof after 85 years, it has to be replaced.

The fundraising campaign, which starts at the anniversary service on Sunday, is intended to at least partially finance the project, which costs around 120,000 euros, including a new facade painting.

Peter Stöbich

Source: merkur

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