This is what the Church of the Redeemer should look like
Created: 11/29/2022, 10:10 am
By: Max Joseph Kronenbitter
The high altar will remain, but the seating in the front rows of the Church of the Redeemer will be flexible.
Dean Markus Ambrosy (left) and architect Thomas Neumeister presented the renovation plans.
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The official starting signal for a mammoth donation project by the Protestant parish: the parish wants to collect three-quarters of a million euros in donations for the general renovation of the Church of the Redeemer on Stockmeierweg.
By the 100th anniversary of the church in 2027 everything should be ready.
Fürstenfeldbruck – The congregation opened the fundraising campaign for the church renovation with a passionate plea from a prominent mouth.
Emeritus regional bishop Susanne Breit-Keßler underlined the importance of the church as a living testimony to the past and at the same time as a place for the future, as a place of refuge and security without being in a cozy corner.
But this dependable home needs help.
Rich in temporary art installations (an angel exhibition can currently be experienced) but rather gloomy and in some corners (electricity) - this is how the Church of the Redeemer on Stockmeierweg currently presents itself.
In order to give the congregation and potential sponsors an idea of what the church should look like after the renovation and consequently what specific donations should be made for, Dean Markus Ambrosy and Pastor Valentin Wendebourg invited to the congregation hall after the service.
A trailer
The prelude was a trailer produced by Tom Blum, which was intended to convey the need for the renovation.
"The idea of renovating the church is 20 years old, but nothing happened," said Dean Markus Ambrosy, summing up the situation.
After all, almost two years ago, a first preliminary draft for a renovation was made.
Architect Thomas Neumeister from Landshut implemented a basic requirement of the parish: the church must be brighter.
But not only that, another demand from parts of the church administration was to clear the sanctuary of the "old Glump" as largely as possible.
The strong castle
As can be seen in the first variant presented by the architect, even the pulpit, which is still so important in Protestant theology today, was to be removed.
"Of course that's not possible," said Susanne Poller, the district home caretaker responsible for architecture and monument preservation, in an interview with the Tagblatt.
The church, designed from 1925 under the architect German Bestelmeyer as a "solid castle", now represents an individual monument, the furnishings of which largely date from the time of its construction.
According to Poller, preserving this as part of a renovation is essential, despite the architect's intense involvement in National Socialist goals.
The church administration was intensely concerned with the area of tension between the preservation of monuments in a museum and a modern church.
“It was a difficult process and very evangelical,” Dean Ambrosy diplomatically summed up the past few months.
In these six other variants emerged.
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The currently current, seventh variant leaves the high altar and pulpit and provides for flexible seating at the front and a handicapped-accessible entrance at the side.
The required brightness is to be ensured both by a fresh, white coat of paint and by lighting the vaulted barrel with many LED lights.
"This results in a completely new spatial impression," promises architect Thomas Neumeister.
It is proposed to hold an artist competition for the principals, i.e. ambo, altar and possibly baptismal font.
At the inauguration
The trailer also showed the history of the Church of the Redeemer, inaugurated on April 3, 1927.
"During the hyperinflation of 1923, the money saved for building the church was suddenly worthless - and yet our ancestors managed to build the church a few years later," said the dean.
"That's why I'm confident that we'll be able to raise the 750,000 euros needed for the renovation today."
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The first 20,000 euros have already been collected and thanks to a grassroots democratic vote, the specific purpose has already been found: “Italian” is to be purchased for the seating.
The ceremonial conclusion of the comprehensive church renovation has also already been set and the regional bishop has already noted the date: April 3, 2027, just in time for the 100th birthday of the Church of the Redeemer.
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