The church building, consecrated several times in 2018, replaced the dilapidated and no longer rehabilitated previous church from the 1960s, which was known as the "tent of God" due to its tent-roof-like construction. The new building follows a different concept - two blunt or inclined cones of the church and weekday chapel are based on the model of the moraine hill and the nearby alpine silhouette. The flat roof structure connects the two differently sized cone structures. The new building received the special prize of the Bavarian Timber Construction Award 2018 for its "extraordinary design language and materiality" and the "impressive spatial quality".
Further information, including pictures of the impressive interior, e.g. at bauwerk-perspektiven.de/architekturfotografie-st-josef-kirche-holzkirchen

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Harald Schramm (Schocker)

October 18, 2024

To relieve the pressure on St. Laurentius Church, St. Joseph's Church was built near the train station right next to the parish hall in the early 1960s. The parish hall had already been used regularly for church services before then. The church, which is striking with its tent-shaped construction and large patterned glass wall, was inaugurated in 1962. Unfortunately, the construction of the heavy wooden roof and the load-bearing concrete walls proved to be not very durable. Due to the risk of collapse, the church had to be closed in November 2011, so that the 50th anniversary celebration could no longer be held in the church building.

The church is named after the carpenter Joseph of Nazareth. He was Mary's fiancé and thus became Jesus' foster father. Because of the pregnancy, Joseph temporarily doubted Mary's faithfulness, but stayed with her after an angel appeared to him in a dream. The New Testament provides very little information about Joseph's life.
In autumn 2014, the deconsecrated building was demolished and will be replaced by a new building in 2016. The first service in the new St. Joseph's Church is scheduled to take place at the end of 2017. Only the surviving church tower reminds us of the original St. Joseph's Church.

Source and further information
unterwegs.alpfanti.de/index.php/themen/holzkirchner-kirchen-und-kapellen.html

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