European Peace Rose Waldhausen
The European Peace Rose Waldhausen is a 2.7 meter high rose made of chrome-nickel steel created by the metal artist Pius Frank , which was set up in 2002 on the occasion of the Upper Austrian Provincial Exhibition in and from 2003 in front of the Waldhausen Collegiate Church .
European Peace Rose Prize
Since then, miniature editions of the steel rose have been awarded as a peace prize every several years by the Waldhausen Board of Trustees as an ideal prize to people or groups who are particularly committed to peace , justice and the integrity of creation . A five-person jury is entrusted with the assessment of the submissions.
The Waldhausen Board of Trustees (Peace Committee Waldhausen im Strudengau) are members of the following persons:
- Gino Cuturi , Upper Austrian News
- Pius Frank , initiator, metal and sacred artist, Nöchling
- Walter Feninger , General Secretary of the Catholic Action of the Diocese of Sankt Pölten, founder of SAM / Soma / St. Pölten and other social markets
- Benedikt Geusau , lawyer, Perg (chairman)
- Friedrich Gleißner , since 1984 member and later director of the Austrian Justitia et Pax Commission, since 2007 recipient of the Commendation Knight of the Order of the Holy Pope Silvester , Vienna
- Silvia Naderer , Perg
- Niklas Salm-Reifferscheidt , Lord of the Castle, Steyregg Castle
- Elisabeth Schierhofer , Justitia et Pax
- Isolde Schönstein , environmental activist, ARGE Creation Responsibility, Vienna
- Anneliese Schirnhofer
- Elisabeth Umdasch , Umdasch , Amstetten
- Dean Pastor Karl Michael Wögerer , Waldhausen im Strudengau,
From 2005 to 2010, the Peace Prize was announced in cooperation with the Justitia et Pax Austria institution of the Austrian Bishops' Conference .
Further peace committees have been formed in Dimbach (founded September 21, 2008), Nöchling (January 11, 2009), St. Oswald (April 17, 2012) and Gottsdorf (April 20, 2013).
The jury's venues were: Palais Schwarzenberg in Vienna (2005), Steyregg Castle in Steyregg (2007), St. Antonius Education Center in Grein (2010), Persenbeug Castle in Persenbeug (2013).
Peace Rose Ceremony May 15, 2005
jury
- Barbara Coudenhove-Kalergi , journalist
- Josef Mayr , Episcopal Vicar, Prelate, Linz
- Martin Schenk , Diakonie Austria, Vienna
- Carol Schwarzenberg , Vienna
- Paul Weiland , superintendent
Award winners
- Farmers help farmers, director Doraja Eberle , Salzburg, oversees projects in the former Yugoslavia
- Eva Maria Hobiger , doctor, organizes aid transports to Bosnia, project Aladdin's magic lamp for the rescue of children with cancer in Iraq
- Otto Tausig , castle actor, project development aid club
- Missionsrunde Waldhausen (recognition award), supported with donations AIDS sufferers and mission stations in different continents
Peace rose ceremony September 16, 2007
jury
- Christine Haiden , Linz, editor-in-chief of Welt der Frauen
- Josef Mayr (priest) , episcopal vicar, prelate
- Martin Schenk , Diakonie Austria, Vienna
- Georg Starhemberg , lord of the castle, Eferding
- Paul Weiland , superintendent
Award winners
- Otto Hirsch, master painter from Linz, helper in the former Yugoslavia and project Solidarity against the war, Afghanistan
- Ruth Steiner , promotes the dialogue between Jews and Christians
- Werner Gerstl , Primary, Head of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Department at the Children's Hospital in Linz, Spattstrasse project
Peace Rose Award 2010
jury
- Josef Mayr (priest) , episcopal vicar, prelate
- Paul Weiland , superintendent
- Walter Feninger , Markersdorf
- Joseph Doblhoff (Haus am Sonntagberg)
- Leo Posch , St. Pölten
Award winners
- Elvira Pretrozzi , founder of the Cenacolo Community , an institution for drug addicts with a high rate of cure, over 50 houses worldwide
- ARGE Creation Responsibility , founder Isolde Schönstein , Vienna, daily information, advisory and makeshift service. Youth education, lecturing and teaching
- Patrick Kofi Kodom from Ghana, stylish missionary in Vienna, pastor for deportation prisoners, refugee aid, contribution to intercultural understanding
- Peace secondary school Seitenstetten / Biberbach (recognition award), peace education through reading projects, peace memorial, special discussion with a victim of Hiroshima and contacts with their family members from Japan, other projects
Peace Rose Award 2013
jury
- Isolde Schönstein , ARGE Creation Responsibility, Vienna
- Paul Weiland , Superintendent of the Evangelical Church, St. Pölten
- Leo Posch , Ober-Grafendorf
- Josef Mayr , prelate, Linz
- Walter Feninger
Award winners
- Father Georg Sporschill for the Concordia street children project in Romania
- Karl Rottenschlager , founder of the Emmaus Community St. Pölten , an association for the integration of socially disadvantaged people
- Barbara Rauchwarter , Mödling , for her commitment in the conciliar process and in adult education
- The people of St. Georgen am Walde for their exemplary cooperation with the refugees in the refugee house in cooperation with Caritas
literature
Books in which the Friedensrose Waldhausen is mentioned:
- Hans Gans (author), Eva Wrazdil (photos): Mysterious Waldviertel. Graz 2007, ISBN 978-3-7020-1156-7 .
- Hans Gans: The Wachau with Strudengau and Nibelungengau. Travel Guide. Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-85439-364-4 .
- Josef Penzendorfer: European Peace Rose Waldhausen. Peace - Justice - Creation. Provincial Library, Waldhausen 2013, ISBN 978-3-99028-271-7 .
