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Due to vandalism: parish church in Poing closed - unknown person left several times to defecate

2022-02-17T14:01:57.904Z


Due to vandalism: parish church in Poing closed - unknown person left several times to defecate Created: 02/17/2022, 2:50 p.m By: Armin Rösl Poing's Catholic parish church remains closed due to vandalism. © Johannes Dziemballa Smashing signs in the church, attempting to ignite and leaving people to go to the toilet several times: the parish church in Poing is now closed due to vandalism. Poin


Due to vandalism: parish church in Poing closed - unknown person left several times to defecate

Created: 02/17/2022, 2:50 p.m

By: Armin Rösl

Poing's Catholic parish church remains closed due to vandalism.

© Johannes Dziemballa

Smashing signs in the church, attempting to ignite and leaving people to go to the toilet several times: the parish church in Poing is now closed due to vandalism.

Poing – After the vandalism in the chapel in Pliening and at the field cross between Pliening and Poing (we reported), another crime scene has now become known: the Catholic parish church of Seliger Rupert Mayer in Poing.

There are signs on their doors that say: "The parish church will remain closed until further notice due to vandalism.

Holy Masses will take place as usual.”


Pastor Philipp Werner reports that someone in the church smashed plastic signs and tried to set fire to them last week.

On the gallery where the organ is, some things have been broken.

The organ itself may also have been damaged.

And: Next to the organ bench in the gallery, someone urinated and went to the toilet, reports the pastor.

Leaves torn from hymn books were used as toilet paper.

According to Philipp Werner, this did not just happen once in the past week.

"I'm sad that a church is treated with such disrespect," he says.

In one case, church musician Simon Bauer discovered the unsavory legacies together with the children's choir.


The damaged field cross between Pliening and Poing.

© Armin Roesl

Due to these incidents and the fact that in the recent past there have been repeated attempts to break open the offering box, the church administration has decided to close the church until further notice, Werner informs.

It is only open for church services.

(By the way: Everything from the region is now also available in our regular Ebersberg newsletter.)


In a conversation with the Geltingen pastor Norbert Joschko from the neighboring parish of Pliening, it turned out that the vandalism in the chapel there and that in the Poingen church probably happened at the same time (Thursday and Friday, February 10th/11th). Philip Werner.

It is unclear whether it was the same perpetrator or whether it was a coincidence.


The gallery of the parish church Sel.

Rupert Mayer has so far been open, but signs pointed out that entry is not permitted.

The vandal smashed these signs in the church, reports Poing's pastor.

Together with the architects and the chair, consideration is now being given to how access can be completely blocked in the future.


In the private chapel on the southern outskirts of Pliening, which is on the dirt road at the end of Griesfeldstrasse, statues of saints and lamps were damaged a week ago, a prayer bench was destroyed and an attempt was made to set the chapel on fire.

A few days later, between Monday and Tuesday afternoon (February 14/15), an unknown perpetrator tore down and broke the Jesus figure on a field cross between Pliening and Poing.

Anyone who can provide relevant information about the cases of vandalism is asked to contact the Poing Police Inspectorate on telephone (08121) 9917-0.

More current news from the district of Ebersberg can be found here.

Source: merkur

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