Church of the Resurrection (Innsbruck)

The Church of the Resurrection from the west

The Resurrection Church is a Protestant church in the Innsbruck district of Reichenau . It was built from 1962 to 1964 according to plans by Charlotte and Karl Pfeiler and is a listed building .

history

Since the Second World War , the Protestant population in Tyrol has risen sharply, especially due to displaced persons. In the 1950s around 13,000 Protestants lived in Tyrol, the majority of them in Innsbruck, where there was only one parish. When the 1964 Winter Olympics were awarded to Innsbruck in 1959 , the Innsbruck pastor Liebenwein decided to build a second Protestant church next to the Christ Church  . Construction began in autumn 1962 under the project name “Olympiakirche”. The rapidly growing Reichenau district not far from the Olympic Village was chosen as the location . Financial support for the construction came from Evangelical member churches in Germany, in particular from the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau . On January 19, 1964, ten days before the opening of the Olympic Games, the church was consecrated by Upper Austrian superintendent Wilhelm Mensing-Braun  . During the games, it served as a worship center for the Protestant participants and visitors, who were looked after by a Swedish, an English and a Hungarian pastor, in addition to the Innsbruck pastors.

In 1968 the parish and parish hall was built. In the same year, the Resurrection Church was spun off from the mother community of the Christ Church and initially a daughter community, in 1970 finally an independent parish.

description

Interior view, view to the altar (1966)

The tent-shaped church building consists of a steep, copper-covered rhombic roof over an almost square floor plan. The gable walls are almost entirely provided with partly colored glass windows on three sides, only the northeast side, which forms the altar wall, is a closed wall surface. The tent roof is pulled up over the entrance in the southwest.

The slim, free-standing bell tower has desk-shaped tips and is crowned with a globe and cross. In the tower there are three bells that  were cast by the Grassmayr bell foundry and were a gift from the Siglingen parish  in Baden-Württemberg.

The largely unadorned interior is characterized by a fan-like frame made of slender reinforced concrete ribs. The altar area in the northeast is raised by three steps, and a massive wooden cross hangs above the altar. The pulpit is made of polished serpentine marble. On the southwest side above the entrance is the gallery supported by round pillars, which protrudes far into the room. The organ was built in 1996 by Orgelbau Pirchner  .

literature

• Helmut Alexander: Churches and religious communities in Tyrol. In: Michael Gehler (Ed.): Tirol. "Country in the mountains": Between tradition and modernity. History of the Austrian Federal States since 1945, Volume 6/3. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 1999, ISBN 978-3-205-98789-5 , pp. 379–486, here pp. 419–421
• Franz Caramelle: Tyrol and Protestantism - a checkered history. In: Tirol , No. 90, summer 2017, pp. 68–78.
• Müller, Wiesauer: Evangelical parish church, Church of the Resurrection. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved April 4, 2019 . 

Web links

Commons : Church of the Resurrection Innsbruck-Ost  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lukas Morscher (Ed.): Innsbrucker Alltagsleben 1930–1980 (=  Volume 50 of publications of the Innsbruck City Archives, new series ). Haymon, Innsbruck 2012, ISBN 978-3-7099-7656-2 , pp. 212-213 .
2. ^ Christian Herbst: A house of God for Olympia. In: Stadtarchiv / Stadtmuseum Innsbruck: Innsbruck remembers, June 29, 2020
3. ↑ The organ in the Innsbruck Resurrection Church , Orgelbau Pirchner

Coordinates: 47 ° 16 ′ 22.1 ″  N , 11 ° 25 ′ 6 ″  E