Haid motorway church

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The 42 meter high church tower
Haid motorway church

The Autobahnkirche Haid is a Roman Catholic church in the Haid district in the municipality of Ansfelden in Upper Austria. It was inaugurated in August 1964, making it the first motorway church in Austria. The church in honor of the Assumption of Mary and St. Paul is also the parish church of Haid and belongs to the Deanery of Traun of the Diocese of Linz .

history

Pastoral care center in the DP camp in Haid

There was already a pastoral care center in the Haid DP camp between 1947 and 1961, which was set up in the camp's former large dining room. In the course of the liquidation of the camp, the local planner, architect Heinz Krytka, approached the pastoral care office and asked for information about the location, size and number of planned building projects. In June 1959, the necessary purchase contract for the land sale was signed between the municipality of Linz and the diocesan diocesan aid fund. At that time, an architectural competition was already announced, the award of which and the subsequent public exhibition of the works took place in July 1959. The first prize went to the project of the working group of architects Josef Krawina and Walter Schmutzer from Vienna.

Groundbreaking, financing, fire in the barrack church

After the Haid pastoral care was dissolved at the end of December 1959, the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of the Haid pastoral care facility took place in June 1960. The building project was financed by the diocesan finance chamber and the newly founded parish of Haid at the beginning of January 1960. Since the financial situation in the Haid population was strained after the camp was closed, many people contributed to the construction of the sacred building through their own work. The construction work was also supported by the building order , so that the parish hall could be completed by the end of October 1960. However, the interior work had not progressed that far, so that after the fire in the old barrack church in February 1961, the parish hall could not be used as an emergency church until the end of the same year.

Topping-out ceremony and church consecration

The consecration of bells in the autumn of 1963

In the summer of 1962, found out ceremony held in September 1963, could bells consecration in Haid are held. The 42 meter high tower with a width of 2.5 meters and a length of 6 meters got a big peal with 4 bells (mood Es-Ges-As-Ges). The church was finally solemnly consecrated on August 15 and 16, 1964.

Controversy over the concrete glass windows

Glass window on the south side of the church building

The concrete glass windows on the south and north walls of the church building were an integral part of the planning from the start. The first tender for the works of art did not lead to the desired success. When the artist Lydia Roppolt's project was approved by the diocesan arts council after a further invitation to tender, the architect Krawina rejected the implementation and, after the client had decided to implement it, terminated the architect's contract. The windows were only installed in 1976 (south side) and 1977 (north side) due to a lack of funds and made by Schlierbach glass painting.

Autobahn Church

The idea of ​​building the church in Haid as a motorway church came from the pastor Paul Wagner, the then mayor Walter Wimmer and the then vice-mayor Albert Schreiberhuber and was submitted in April 1959 to the then district captain of Linz Land , Kurt Hofinger. Both the district captain and the motorway administration approved the idea.

present

Chancel of the Haid motorway church

The interior was redesigned in the mid-1990s according to plans by architect Helmut Werthgarner and is now presented as a light-flooded room with bright ceiling panels and benches arranged in a circle in three blocks around an altar in the center.

The original concept of getting to know the church while driving by has not caught on. Due to the building up of the urban area in Haid, the church is hardly visible from the motorway. Instead, a lively core community with around 350 church visitors (2003) has developed in the Haid district.

literature

  • Josef Fuchshuber: Ansfelden then and now . Ed .: City of Ansfelden. tape 1 . Ansfelden 1988, p. 310 ff .

Web links

Commons : Autobahnkirche Haid  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Elisabeth Leitner: The motorway church in Haid. KirchenZeitung Diözese Linz, July 30, 2003, accessed on December 17, 2010 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '17.6 "  N , 14 ° 15' 8.9"  E