Rough corners, idyllic spots: a photo show leads through wooden churches

A little village-like, a little urban, with rough corners and idyllic spots: The facets of the Holzkirche can now be seen in photos of the underground car park in the center.

Holzkirchen

- a bit village-like, a bit urban, with rough corners and idyllic spots: Holzkirchen has many facets that it can confidently show.

More than 100 people from Holzkirchen demonstrated this in the photo competition for the 1111 anniversary.

A selection can now be seen as a business card at the underground car park in the center of the village.

White sugar-coated linden trees on Steindlallee against a light blue winter sky. The dirt road from Burgstallerstraße past the wayside cross towards Baumgarten in the glowing sunset. The swivel arm of a ride at the Spring Festival, which frames the church tower of St. Laurentius. The ballet of the drops at the market square fountain, the flames at the Hartpenninger Johannifeuer or gentle waves in the Föchinger Weiher. The geothermal derrick, which is lit up at night, almost looks like a space rocket before takeoff. The gorge of old industrial walls with peeling plaster on the old Postbräu, which is now history after the demolition and was photographed in apparently foreboding black and white. Elements that make up the face of the market town,have recently been shown in large-format photo prints on the walls at the entrance and exit of the underground car park on Hafnerstrasse. "For me the photos are really art," said Mayor Christoph Schmid at the opening of the permanent exhibition.

Photos from the competition for the 1111 anniversary celebration

The photos come from the photo competition "For the love of wood churches" for the 1111-year celebration of Holzkirchen four years ago, which the Rotary Club Holzkirchen had launched. Local councilor Elisabeth Dasch was impressed by the photos at the time. Too good to be dormant in a file on any computer, she thought. When Reinhard Hermann became president of the local Rotarians, Dasch met with open ears with her idea of ​​permanently exhibiting the pictures. The preparation took some time: because the photos were only available in small file sizes, the senders had to be contacted again to ask whether they would make their photos available again in their original size. Except for one person, all of them were there again. "The photos are only from Holzkirchners," emphasizes Hermann's successor as Rotary President, Hans Härtl,“We didn't buy anything.” The winning photo of the competition is also included.

Artists have curated contributions

The project really took off when the Rotarians brought two local artists, Lizzie Hladik and Thomas Jarzina, on board. The painter and graphic artist curated a representative and varied selection from the more than 100 submissions to the photo competition. “Of course, many motifs came up again and again,” explains Jarzina, for example Steindlallee and Kogel. Other photos were dropped because they could not meet the technical requirements for a large print. The result was a diverse selection of modern and traditional. 20 high quality photos printed on aluminum. The Rotary Club took over the printing costs, which came to 1000 euros at a special rate. With the video-monitored underground car park access, a quite safe place for the small exhibition has been found, says Schmid,who was already on the jury for the photo competition for the 1111 anniversary.

Exhibition leads into the place

Hladik explains the concept: Starting with the districts of Hartpenning and Föching, via the S-Bahn, Flinspachstrasse and Kogel, the concept leads to a certain extent closer to the center of Holzkirchen with the market square - via the pictures and when walking out of the centrally located underground car park, also very real.

In the other direction, the exhibition becomes complete.

When entering the underground car park, visitors discover another photo with a picture in the picture above the entrance: a young woman taking pictures of the marketplace with her smartphone.

Hladik hopes that the photo as an eye-catcher may also make passers-by who don't even park in the underground car park want to take a closer look.

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