Evangelical Church Windischgarsten

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Evangelical Church Windischgarsten

The Evangelical Church of Windischgarsten in the market town of Windischgarsten in Upper Austria dates from 1951–1952. The Evangelical Subsidiary Community of AB Windischgarsten is integrated into the pastoral care room of the Evangelical Parish Church in Kirchdorf an der Krems . The parish is part of the Evangelical Church AB in Austria and belongs to the Evangelical Superintendentur Upper Austria . The church of Windischgarsten is also called the Good Shepherd . The sacred building is titled Evang. Parish church AB Zum Guten Hirten and rectory as well as guest house under monument protection .

The Protestant Church

The groundbreaking ceremony for the church and the parsonage of the Windischgarsten subsidiary took place on July 17, 1951, and the shell construction was completed on September 10, 1951. On October 5, 1952, the inauguration was celebrated by Superintendent Wilhelm Mensing-Braun . The sacred building, located at Römerweg 7, was built in a sober design and with simple lines.

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 Windischgarsten area, the necessary number of believers could not be reached, only after the Second World War there was a noticeable increase in Protestants due to evangelical war refugees. Around the year 1945 there were around 700 Protestant parishioners in the southern part of the Kirchdorf district, half of them locals, the other half of whom were displaced from Transylvania and the Banat. The services were held in schools, private apartments and inns. The nearest Protestant pastoral office, which was responsible for pastoral care, was the office of the Evangelical Church Neukematen , around 60 kilometers away. In the Windischgarsten area there was no church, no prayer room, no rectory and no visible community center at all.

In May 1947, a parish vicar was installed in Windischgarsten for the first time; due to the lack of an apartment, he lived with his family in the refugee barracks at Spital am Pyhrn. At the beginning of the 1950s, plans to build a church became concrete. A building site had been available for decades from a donation by a community member from before the world wars. Thanks to the significant work done by Pastor Erich Schneider from Transylvania, construction work on the church and rectory could begin in 1951. In the 1960s a youth hostel was added.

The district capital Kirchdorf received a Protestant parish church in 1956, whereupon in 1957, under canon law, the separation from the parish Neukematen and the establishment of the Evangelical parish AB Kirchdorf-Windischgarsten was carried out. Kirchdorf has been the seat of the parish office since then, and Windischgarsten is run as a subsidiary parish. Klaus Castle, located in the parish district, has been home to the evangelical community of torchbearers since 1963. This mission community expanded the castle into an international youth center and also supports the parish of Kirchdorf-Windischgarsten on a voluntary basis in many areas.

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 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Helmut K.Köhrer: Evangelical Upper Austria today . 1st edition. Almesberger, Linz 1994, p. 85 .
  2. ^ A b c d e 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. 251-254 .
  3. ^ Peter F. Barton: Evangelical in Austria . 1st edition. Böhlau, Vienna Cologne Graz 1987, ISBN 3-205-05096-7 , p. 129, 203 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 43 ′ 11.6 "  N , 14 ° 19 ′ 33.9"  E