Evangelical Church Laakirchen

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Trinity Church in Laakirchen

The Evangelical Church of Laakirchen in the municipality of Laakirchen in Upper Austria dates from 1961–1964. The Evangelical Subsidiary Congregation AB Laakirchen is integrated into the pastoral care room of the Evangelical Parish Church in Gmunden . The parish is part of the Evangelical Church AB in Austria and belongs to the Evangelical Superintendentur Upper Austria . The church of Laakirchen is also called Dreifaltigkeitskirche or Dreieinigkeitskirche .

The Protestant Church

The foundation stone for the church of the Laakirchen subsidiary was laid on November 12, 1961. The inauguration took place in 1964 by Superintendent Wilhelm Mensing-Braun . In 1966 a community from Württemberg donated two old organs. The Windtner company used 476 pipes and made a new organ from them. Since 1973 the church has had a bell weighing 650 kg, manufactured by Graßmayr in Innsbruck. The bell is named Philipp Melanchthon.

In keeping with the zeitgeist of the 1960s, the inside and outside of the church is functional.

History of the Protestant Congregation

The tolerance patent of 1781 issued by Emperor Joseph II allowed the reestablishment of Protestant parishes in the Habsburg lands. In today's Austria a total of 48 tolerance communities were created by 1795. In the area around Laakirchen, the minimum size stipulated at the time for a separate congregation was not reached, the closest tolerance congregation was Wels, the next church was the Evangelical Church of Gmunden from the 1870s.

After the Second World War, the Protestant proportion of the population in Laakirchen increased due to the settlement of expelled Transylvanian Saxons. In the 1950s, a preaching post was set up in the secondary school. In 1956 the Roman Catholic parish of Laakirchen sold a plot of land of around 2,300 m² to the Protestant parish. The church building association was constituted in 1957. In November 1961, construction work began. In December 1964 the church was consecrated under the name Dreieinigkeitskirche. A community center with community hall and offices was built from 1995.

Today the Evangelical Churches in Gmunden, Ebensee, Scharnstein and Laakirchen belong to the pastoral care room of the Evangelical Parish Church in Gmunden.

Demographic peculiarity in the Gmunden district

The Gmunden district has the highest density of Protestant religious buildings in the state of Upper Austria. More than half of the 20 political communities have a Protestant church building. In the judicial district of Bad Ischl there are seven Protestant churches for every seven political communities. In the judicial district of Gmunden there are four Protestant church buildings for every 13 political communities. These are the churches of Gmunden, Laakirchen and Scharnstein as well as the church in Vorchdorf (Pfarrsprengel Stadl-Paura).

literature

  • Leopold Temmel : Evangelical in Upper Austria. Career and existence of the Evangelical Church . 1st edition. Oberösterreichischer Landesverlag, Linz 1982, ISBN 3-85214-334-9 .
  • Helmuth K. Koehrer: Evangelical Upper Austria today . 1st edition. Almesberger, Linz 1994.
  • Peter F. Barton: Evangelical in Austria . 1st edition. Böhlau, Vienna Cologne Graz 1987, ISBN 3-205-05096-7 .
  • Association for the publication of a district book Gmunden (ed.): The district of Gmunden and its communities. From the beginning to the present . 1st edition. Upper Austrian Provincial Publishing House, Linz 1991.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Leopold Temmel: Evangelical in Upper Austria. Career and existence of the Evangelical Church . 1st edition. Oberösterreichischer Landesverlag, Linz 1982, ISBN 3-85214-334-9 , p. 167-168 .
  2. ^ Peter F. Barton: Evangelical in Austria . 1st edition. Böhlau, Vienna Cologne Graz 1987, ISBN 3-205-05096-7 , p. 129, 203 .
  3. ^ History of the Laakirchen subsidiary community. (No longer available online.) Evangelische Pfarrgemeinde AB Gmunden, February 1, 2017, formerly in the original ; accessed on February 1, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.evanggmunden.aat  
  4. ↑ Helmut K. Koehrer: Evangelical Upper Austria today . 1st edition. Almesberger, Linz 1994, p. 67 .
  5. ^ Leopold Temmel: The Evangelical Church in the Gmunden district . In: Association for the publication of a district book Gmunden (Hrsg.): The district of Gmunden and its communities . From the beginning to the present. Upper Austria. Landesverlag. Linz. 1991. pp. 523-539.

Coordinates: 47 ° 59 ′ 14 "  N , 13 ° 48 ′ 54.1"  E