st-georg-church-in-hebertshausen / Germany
| Progettista | Markus O. Kuntscher | |
| Location | Am Weinberg, 85241 Hebertshausen | |
| Nazione | Germany | |
| Design Team |
Markus O. Kuntscher, Architect |
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| Anno | 2020 | |
| Crediti Fotografici |
All Photos, Interior&Exterior — Copyright © Florian Holzherr |
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Descrizione del progetto
Church buildings everywhere are being converted, reduced in size or adapted to new requirements. Rarely, however, is the transformation as fundamental as in the case of St. Georg’s in Hebertshausen. Here it has encompassed everything from the landscaping of the wider surroundings to the addition of a funeral hall and the design of the altar and windows in the listed church.
Initial situation
The municipality of Hebertshausen is located in the Greater Munich area, 4 km from Dachau. The Church of St. Georg stands on a ridge edge in the middle of the cemetery. First mentioned in 1293, it was rebuilt several times as a late Romanesque hall as well as in the Baroque period. However, hardly any of the historical interior had been preserved, so that it was relatively plain, prior to the project. Since the construction of a new, larger parish church below the edge of the site in the 1960s, St. Georg has served purely as a cemetery church, and extensive structural damage meant that it required complete renovation.
Church building
In order to strengthen St. Georg’s importance as a cemetery church, it has been given a new entrance on the west side along its longitudinal axis. Not only does this allow for much easier access for the disabled and elderly, it also allows coffins to be transported inside with dignity. As the west facade stands exactly on the slope edge, an exterior plateau had to be created onto which visitors step out when exiting the church. The entrance opening and the substructure of the plateau incorporate the arch shape that can be found in various forms in the historical buildings on the cemetery grounds, including the reticulated vault in the choir room, the Romanesque windows of the church, the round-arched windows of the mortuary and, last but not least, the serrated frieze of the church facade.
Inside, stairs previously separated the choir and altar from the nave. Now the new floor rises gradually from the west entrance towards the choir, leaving only two steps to be ascended. Chairs instead of benches make the room flexible for different forms of celebration.
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