Event center in the middle of the city: tour of the new rectory in Miesbach

Created: 06/23/2022, 02:00 p.m

By: Sebastian Grauvogl

Anticipation in the (still) empty hall: parish clerk Siegfried Rummel and pastoral officer Kathrin Baumann can already imagine the new rooms.

© Thomas Plettenberg

The inauguration is still nine months away.

But you can already clearly see on the construction site of the Miesbach rectory what is to be built here.

A tour.

Miesbach

– church nurse Siegfried Rummel claps his hands vigorously.

It clicks - but only once.

The echo expected in the empty stairwell does not come.

Rummel points up at the plaster ceiling riddled with holes.

"It absorbs the sound." Crucial in a building that was cast almost entirely out of concrete and is intended to offer space for up to eight events at the same time - without them getting in each other's way acoustically.

Other sounds are currently echoing through the new Catholic parish home on Kolpingstrasse in Miesbach.

The construction work is in full swing.

During the tour that Rummel and pastoral officer Kathrin Baumann undertake for our newspaper, the concrete cutter at the entrance plays the first violin in terms of noise.

"The cutout in the wall has to be enlarged, otherwise the door won't fit in," shouts Rummel over the deafening screeches (despite the plaster ceiling with holes).

Baumann points to the long side of the foyer, which is shrouded in thick dust.

A long bench will later stand here.

"For a pleasant arrival." At the same place, but two floors above, a small lounge with an unobstructed view of the Gindelalm is planned.

The elevator next to it ensures accessibility, but according to Baumann it should only be used by wheelchair users or other people with restricted mobility.

"That's why he drives so slowly."

Soon to be finished: the elevator next to the entrance portal on the ground floor.

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It will still be a while before the first visitors enter the building with its 600 square meters of floor space.

Contrary to what was planned at the beginning of the demolition in March 2020, the new rectory is not to be inaugurated until the beginning of 2023.

The parish is willing to be patient, after all, given the recent price increases in the construction sector, their new building is probably one of the last of this size for the time being.

The Archbishop's Ordinariate is investing almost seven million euros in Miesbach.

The parish community only had to make a comparatively low contribution of 270,000 euros.

For Baumann, a sign that the church tax revenue would flow into specific local projects.

Which are then not only open to the parish, but also to other users.

architecture

Openness is also the motto of the architecture of the rectory.

"It's so wonderfully bright," enthuses Baumann.

And that even now, where instead of lamps there are still long cables dangling from the ceiling and the window panes are covered with milky tarpaulins.

Unlike the parquet floors, the window frames are not made of oak, but of (cheaper) spruce.

It's a pity, but Baumann says we had to make savings somewhere.

All corridors are tiled with rock from the Franconian Jura.

The workers even installed some panels in front of the window fronts of the west facade.

"For the visual structure," explains Baumann.

rooms and hall

Meanwhile, the rooms in the new rectory, for which the parish council has already given suitable names, are functionally divided.

According to Baumann, curtains made of rust-red felt are intended to make the color scheme, which is otherwise kept rather neutral in white, gray and wood tones, a bit cozier.

The centerpiece is the 160 square meter hall on the first floor.

Thanks to sliding elements anchored in rails on the ceiling, this can be divided into the two areas Maria and Josef (also acoustically completely decoupled from each other).

With an extendable beamer, a projection area painted a canvas-like color and metal rails for spotlights (installed at the request of the youth groups), state-of-the-art event technology is provided.

The foyer can also be integrated through the wide doors of the hall at receptions,

explains Bauman.

A fully equipped kitchen is available for catering.

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The second floor with the three group rooms Kolping, Franziskus and Laurentius with access to the green balcony terrace and the youth room Korbinian with a separate entrance on the ground floor also have a smaller kitchenette.

There you will also find the Magdalena meditation room (which can be used, among other things, for groups of small children) and the Cäcilia rehearsal room for the parish choirs.

The latter would not have a sound-diffusing ceiling, says Rummel.

Church musician Michael Hamberger preferred fabric curtains in order to be able to regulate the acoustics more flexibly.

technology and garden

The indoor climate is controlled by a ventilation system and the pellet heating system in the technical room on the ground floor.

Sufficient fresh air is available on the large garden terrace.

According to Baumann, the children of the neighboring parish kindergarten can also use these to run around.

The new movement room, which was built in the course of the work, is almost exclusively available to them, but is not structurally connected to the rectory.

Still scaffolded: the east facade of the new rectory with the spacious terrace.

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The latter should be fully integrated into the social interaction in the district town.

It should not only be open to church groups, but also for culture or celebrations.

According to Baumann, a particular focus should be on families - in keeping with the kindergarten, crèche and after-school care center in the immediate vicinity.

And so Rummel also hopes that as much life as possible will move into the rectory after the opening: "That's what it was built for."

Johanna Siegl and Maren Grauvogl