Barrack church Nöstlbach

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Barrack church Nöstlbach

The barrack church Nöstlbach is located in the village of Nöstlbach in the municipality of St. Marien in Upper Austria . The Roman Catholic branch church of St. Pankraz of the parish church of St. Marien belongs to the dean's office Kremsmünster in the diocese of Linz . The barrack church is a listed building .

history

A previous church of St. Pankraz at Mörtlmayrgut in Nöstlbach has been accepted since 1400. Nezilapach was initially an independent parish with its own cemetery and later became a branch of the Ansfelden parish church . In 1784 the church came to the parish of St. Marien where it was abandoned in 1786 in the course of secularization and demolished in 1849.

The barracks as an emergency church originally stood from 1946 in the Linz-Wegscheid DP camp in the St. Martin district of the municipality of Traun , where it was the place of worship for 976 emigrants in camp 59 of the workers' residential camp of the former Reichsbahn.

In 1963 the dismantled barrack in Nöstlbach on Reiherweg was rebuilt on a plot of land bought for 20,000 schillings. The amount was not raised from church funds, but from local believers. The first service was held on December 29, 1963.

In 2000 the church was restored. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary in Nöstlbach, the barrack church was restored and the forecourt was redesigned. It is the last barrack church in Austria still preserved and used as a church.

The altarpiece people who are on the move. painted Herbert Wimberger. The figure of St. Pankraz was carved by Arthur Maria Rottensteiner in 2013.

See also

literature

  • Georg Huber, Gerold Schießer, Franz Landerl: 50 years of the barrack church in Nöstlbach. Festschrift, Parish St. Marien, St. Marien 2013, 20 pages.
  • Claudia Sendner: There are many baroque churches, “Barack” only one. "Samareiner" have completely renewed the Nöstlbacher barrack church. In: Church newspaper of the Diocese of Linz . Vol. 55, 2000, No. 23, online (accessed March 23, 2012).

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Coordinates: 48 ° 9 '58.8 "  N , 14 ° 14' 46.2"  E