List of parishes in the Grein deanery

The Grein deanery is a deanery of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Linz .

Parishes with church buildings and chapels

place	Parish Association	Patronage	Church buildings and chapels	image
Bad crosses	Pabneukirchen	St. Vitus	Parish Church Bad Kreuzen Aignerkreuz pilgrimage chapel
Dimbach	Pabneukirchen	Assumption Day	Parish Church Dimbach
Grein	Grein	St. Aegidius	Parish Church of Grein
Klam	Grein	Finding the Cross	Parish Church of Klam Castle Chapel Clam
Pabneukirchen	Pabneukirchen	Hll. Simon and Judas	Parish Church Pabneukirchen
Saxen	Grein	St. Stephen	Parish Church of Saxen
St. Georgen am Walde	Pabneukirchen	St. George	Parish church of St. Georgen am Walde
St. Nikola on the Danube	Grein	St. Nicholas	Parish Church of St. Nikola on the Danube Sarmingstein market church
St. Thomas on the bladder stone	Pabneukirchen	St. Thomas	Parish Church of St. Thomas on the bladder stone
Waldhausen	Pabneukirchen	St. John the Baptist	Parish church Waldhausen im Strudengau Filialkirche Gloxwald, former collegiate church

Deanery Grein

geography

The deanery comprises 10 parishes, all of which are located in the Perg district, although the parish boundaries do not always entirely coincide with the political boundaries: Bad Kreuzen, Dimbach, Grein, Klam, Pabneukirchen, Saxen, St. Georgen am Walde, St. Nikola an the Danube, St. Thomas on the bladder stone, Waldhausen im Strudengau. A small part of the parish of St. Nikola an der Donau belongs to the parish of Nöchling in the Maria Taferl dean's office in the diocese of St. Pölten .

Neighboring deans

	Deanery Unterweißbach
Dean's office Perg		Deanery Maria Taferl ( Diocese of St. Pölten )
	Deanery Amstetten ( Diocese of St.Pölten )

history

From the re-establishment in the course of the Josephine reforms to the split off of the Grein deanery in 1879, the Pabneukirchen deanery initially comprised 19 parishes in the eastern half of the Perg district and the Freistadt district : Arbing , Baumgartenberg , Dimbach , Grein , Kaltenberg , Klam , Königswiesen , Kreuzen , Mitterkirchen , Königswiesen , Pabneukirchen , Pergkirchen , Pierbach , Saxen , St. Georgen am Walde , St. Nikola , St. Thomas am bladder stone , Unterweißbach , Waldhausen .

In 1823 the deanery of Pabneukirchen was expanded to include the parishes of Münzbach , Perg , Windhaag , and in 1909 the parish of Rechberg .

The Danube Bank Deanery Grein, which was newly created in 1878/1879 by splitting off from the Deanery Pabneukirchen, comprised 12 parishes up to the reorganization that came into effect on January 1, 1974, all of which previously belonged to the Deanery Pabneukirchen: Arbing , Baumgartenberg , Grein , Klam , Mitterkirchen , Münzbach , Perg , Pergkirchen , Saxen , St. Nikola , Waldhausen , Windhaag .

In 1974 the parishes of Arbing , Baumgartenberg , Mitterkirchen , Münzbach , Perg , Pergkirchen , Windhaag joined the deanery Perg from the deanery Grein .

The parishes of Dimbach , Bad Kreuzen , Pabneukirchen , St. Georgen am Walde and St. Thomas am bladder stone joined the dean's office in Grein in 1974 when the dean's office in Pabneukirchen was dissolved .

Deans

• ? -? Karl Kopfreiter
• 1974–1985 Johann Gütlinger
• 1985-2005 Berthold Müller
• 2005–2015 Karl Wögerer
• since 2015 Johann Fehrerhofer

Web links

Commons : Churches in the District of Perg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Commons : Monasteries in the Perg district  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Commons : Monastery churches in the Perg district  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Commons : Pfarrhöfe in the Perg district  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Deanery Grein . In: Diocese of Linz: Parish Finder
• Parish Grein: https://pfarre-grein.jimdo.com/

Individual evidence

1. ^ Julius Aichberger: The political district of Perg, a contribution to local history. In: Ludwig Commenda: Grein and surroundings, new illustrated guide of Grein and surroundings as well as through the Machland, Mauthausen -Grein railway line with an appendix The Danube Valley Railway Grein - Krems , a historical, topographical and scenic description, Grein, 1910, p. 132 digital Provincial Library of Upper Austria
2. ↑ Imperial and royal schematic of the Archduchy of Austria ob der Enns for the year 1825, 1 part, p. 422, Deanery Pabneukirchen book query
3. ^ Julius Aichberger: The political district of Perg, a contribution to local history. In: Ludwig Commenda: Grein and surroundings, new illustrated guide of Grein and surroundings as well as through the Machland, Mauthausen - Grein railway with an appendix The Danube valley railway Grein - Krems , a historical, topographical and scenic description, Grein, 1910, p. 50 digital Provincial Library of Upper Austria
4. ↑ 1899 - 1916 - Diocese of Linz. (PDF) Retrieved November 4, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Birthdays in January 2018. Retrieved on November 4, 2018 . 
6. ↑ 50th anniversary of the priesthood: a surprise for the monsignor. Retrieved November 4, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Johann Fehrerhofer becomes dean for the Grein division. July 6, 2015, accessed November 4, 2018 .