Dachstein Chapel

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Dachstein Chapel

The Dachstein Chapel is located directly at the Simonyhütte on the Dachstein Mountains . It lies at an altitude of 2206  m above sea level. A. and is considered the highest church in the Northern Limestone Alps . It is located in the municipality of Hallstatt in the Gmunden district ( Upper Austria ) and belongs to the Linz diocese . The chapel is a listed building .

history

The chapel was built in 1913 by the Linz cathedral master builder Matthäus Schlager and consecrated to the most holy altar sacrament on September 1, 1914 by the Linz bishop Rudolph Hittmair . The interior design of the chapel was initially not completed because of the First World War .

On July 26, 1925, a memorial plaque was unveiled in the Dachstein Chapel in memory of Bishop Hittmair.

It was not until 1994 that the interior was designed on the initiative of Hallstatt pastor August Stögner. The altar relief and the celebration table date from this time. In 2013 and 2014 the 100th anniversaries of the laying of the foundation stone and the consecration were celebrated.

In 2015, after an appeal for donations, a renovation took place in which the roofing, the facade and the interior plaster were renewed. The costs of the renovation were partly borne by the state of Upper Austria, the Federal Monuments Office, the Diocese of Linz, the Catholic parish Hallstatt and private donors.

literature

  • Karl Wirobal: Alpine island of prayer - one hundred years of the Dachstein chapel . In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets . Linz 2014, pp. 169–182 ( PDF on land-oberoesterreich.gv.at).

Web links

Commons : Dachsteinkapelle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Inauguration of the new Dachstein chapel In: The interesting sheet . Vienna, XXXIII. Volume, No. 38, from September 17, 1914, p. 16
  2. ↑ The Dachstein ascent of Bishop Rudolph In: Linzer Volksblatt . Illustrated War Supplement No. 11 1915, published April 18, 1915
  3. ↑ Unveiling of the Bishop Hittmair monument in the Dachstein Chapel In: Salzburger Chronik . Volume 61, No. 171 from July 30, 1925, p. 5
  4. ↑ Unveiling of the Bishop Hittmair monument in the Dachstein Chapel In: Linzer Tages-Post . Volume 61, No. 172 from July 31, 1925, p. 6.
  5. ↑ A heartfelt wish from Bishop Rudolph Hittmair In: www.salzkammergut-rundblick.at , published on September 22, 2013, accessed on April 25, 2019
  6. ^ Anniversary of consecration In: www.mein Bezirk.at , published on September 7, 2014, accessed on April 25, 2019
  7. ↑ Call for donations for the Dachstein Chapel In: www.salzkammergut-rundblick.at , published on July 17, 2015, accessed on April 25, 2019
  8. ^ Rescue of the Dachstein Chapel In: www.mein Bezirk.at , published on November 30, 2015, accessed on April 25, 2019

Coordinates: 47 ° 30 ′ 2.3 "  N , 13 ° 37 ′ 27.2"  E