Christ Church Althofen

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Parish center Althofen with church and Paulussaal

The Christ Church Althofen is a Protestant church in Althofen , Carinthia . It is the parish church of the parish A. and HB Althofen of the Evangelical Superintendentur AB Carinthia and East Tyrol , with Friesach , Weitensfeld and Hüttenberg .

history

local community

The Evangelical Parish Althofen is a typical diaspora community . The municipality covers parts of the Görtschitztal , the Krappfeld with Althofen, the Gurktal , the Metnitztal with Friesach and thus almost 1000 km², that is more than 10% of the area of ​​Carinthia. Of the approximately 28,000 inhabitants of the municipality today, 700 belong to the Protestant church. This means that the proportion of Protestants in the entire municipality is less than 3%, well below the average in Carinthia, which is slightly less than 10%.
This absent-mindedness is the result of the Counter-Reformation , which was particularly vigorous in Austria under the Habsburgs. After Protestantism was already very widespread in Carinthia, it was fought with violence from the end of the 16th century. In Carinthia and Styria, the notorious Bishop of Seckau, Martin Brenner (also known as the "Ketzerhammer") was particularly active at this time . In the course of the Counter Reformation, numerous Carinthians had to emigrate to Transylvania , among others . Only after the tolerance patent of Joseph II. 1781 and finally the Protestant patent of Franz Joseph in 1861 was religious practice free.

The parish of Klagenfurt built the evangelical preaching station in Treibach in 1901 (the city is now called Althofen). After the construction of the Protestant church in St. Veit an der Glan (1910–1912), Althofen belonged to the parish of St. Veit for a long time . In 1954 a parsonage was built in Althofen, and in 1957 Althofen became an independent parish. The Christ Church was built in 1963 and expanded into a parish center in 1993, each with the support of the Austrian and German Gustav-Adolf-Werk .

Today the parish has four preaching stations: the parish center in Althofen, the Martin Luther Church in Friesach (consecrated in 1984), the Weitensfeld forest chapel (built in 1998) and Hüttenberg (in the market community's cultural hall).

Pastor Carl Rathke (1954–1964), Geert Lohmann (1964–1976) and Hans-Joachim Freund (since 1978) have served as pastors, preachers and religion teachers in the parish of Althofen for the past 50 years.

The parish has a longstanding partnership with the Protestant parish in Tamm in Baden-Württemberg.

Building description

The Evangelical Parish Center is located south of the main square on Lorberkogel, on Silbereggerstraße  (L82, No. 7)

The church was built in 1963 and presents itself as a simple hall with a gable roof and lattice windows pointed at the top. In 1993 a church tower was built on the front side, which, in the spirit of postmodernism , is modeled on a medieval defensive tower, white with a tower head in dark brown with corner bay windows and Pointed helmet. The front is adorned with a narrow rectangular stained glass window, and above it a large Pax-Christi symbol ( Chi-Rho / Alpha-Omaga ).

In 1993, the ensemble of the parish hall, built in 1954, and the church with the Paulussaal as a community hall were closed.

literature

  • Alexander Hanisch-Wolfram (Ed.): To grow together. On the history of the Protestant parish of Althofen . Publishing house of the Kärntner Landesarchiv, Klagenfurt am Wörthersee 2016, ISBN 978-3-900531-99-7 .
  • Viktor Maluschng, Geert Lohman: The Evangelical Parish Althofen. In: 700 years of Markt Althofen , Althofen 1968, p. 29 f.

Web links

Commons : Christ Church Althofen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

proof

  1. ↑ 9536 km²
  2. ↑ a b Chronicle ( Memento of the original from February 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , evang-althofen.at  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.evang-althofen.at
  3. ↑ in detail: Remaining credible . Scientific companion volume for the Carinthian State Exhibition; published by Wilhelm Wadl, Verlag des Geschichtsvereines für Kärnten, Klagenfurt 2011. On the history of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation in Carinthia, in particular p. 83 ff, p. 202 ff.
  4. ↑ The Protestant church building after the Second World War - a summary . In: History Association for Carinthia: Archive for patriotic history and topography , Volume 101, 2011, p. 359 ff. (On Althofen, assembly character versus sermon thoughts: p. 359)

Coordinates: 46 ° 52 ′ 6.8 ″  N , 14 ° 28 ′ 11.7 ″  E