Confessing Church (Admont)
The Admont Confessing Church is located on Evangelische Kirchenstrasse in the market town of Admont in the Liezen district in Styria . With the Church of the Resurrection in Liezen it belongs to the parish AB Admont-Liezen in the Evangelical Superintendent of A. B. Styria . The church is a listed building .
history
The beginnings of the Protestant Church in Admont go back to the time of the Los von Rom movement around 1900. Starting from the parish of Wald am Schoberpaß , a preaching station was initially set up in the town hall of the market community and this was affiliated to the newly founded parish Rottenmann . The first church building planned in 1908, as in Rottenmann itself, did not come about for the time being. The church, built in 1929/30 with the support of the Gustav-Adolf-Verein , was elevated to a parish church in 1947 and the Liezen branch was assigned to it. The first Protestant pastor of Admont was Erich Schuster. With his resignation in 1972, the official residence was transferred to the Church of the Resurrection in Liezen .
Church building
The existing church building was built according to plans by Otto-Oskar Graeßner, an employee of Otto Bartning at the State University for Crafts and Architecture , in clear structural forms as a simple hall with a slender tower and a parsonage connected to the rear with a community hall. The Confessing Church is one of the earliest modern sacred buildings in Austria. In the use of half-height outer walls with a set wooden construction and an open roof structure, the Admonter church building also represents a preliminary form of Otto Bartning's emergency churches Canaan with the wine miracle and the apparition of Jesus to the disciples in Emmaus comes from Graeßner's father-in-law, Hermann Sandkuhl (Berlin).
literature
- Erich Schuster: The Protestant Confessing Church in Admont . In: Admont. A local history reader . Admont 1993, pp. 174f.
- Antje Senarclens de Grancy: Protestant church building in Styria at the beginning of modernity. In: Ernst-Christian Gerhold, Johann G. Haditsch (Hrsg.): Evangelical art and culture in Styria. Leykam, Graz 1996, ISBN 3-7011-7340-0 , pp. 59, 75f.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 34 ′ 34.6 ″ N , 14 ° 27 ′ 31 ″ E