Evangelical Parish Church Bad Hall

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Evangelical Parish Church Bad Hall

The Evangelical Parish Church of Bad Hall in the municipality of Bad Hall in Upper Austria dates from 1964 to 1968. The parish is part of the Evangelical Church AB in Austria and belongs to the Evangelical Superintendentur Upper Austria . The Bad Haller church is also called Lukaskirche . Under the title Evangelische Pfarrkirche AB it is a listed building .

The Protestant Church

The Protestant parish church was built between 1964 and 1968. The construction of the sacred building on Römerstrasse was based on the plans of the Linz architect Hubert Taferner . The church has about 300 seats and the steeple is 27 meters high. Its three bells (in the keys of F sharp, A, E) are made of cast steel and were donated by the Pfedelbach community in Württemberg .

The organ is equipped with two manuals and was built in 1978 by the Riedl company from Linz. The interior of the church is kept rather simple according to the architecture of the 1960s. The center of the church is the altar and the large cross above.

History of the Protestant Congregation

In the period from 1550 to 1624, the Bad Hall area was largely Lutheran. From the 1620s the Counter Reformation set in , in the course of which many Lutherans emigrated, a smaller part remained in so-called secret Protestantism . Around 1752 around 150 secret Protestants were forced to move to the Crown Land of Transylvania .

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 Bad Hall area there were only around 100 Protestants who visited the church in the Neukematen tolerance congregation . From 1880 deaconesses of the Diakonie Gallneukirchen began their work in Bad Hall. In 1899 Bad Hall became a preaching post for new kemats. In 1907 a Protestant children's home was built . In 1934 the preaching station became a preaching station. In 1944, expellees from the Second World War , mainly Transylvanian Saxons , came to Bad Hall. As a result, the number of Protestants rose to over 600. In 1949, a bedside room with around 100 seats was set up in the Protestant hospice.

From 1964 to 1968 the parish built the Lukaskirche and an extension with a meeting and youth room. In July 1978, under canon law, the outsourcing from Neukematen and the elevation to the Protestant parish AB Bad Hall, with a preaching position in Kremsmünster . The inauguration ceremony for the new community center took place in 2002.

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 Verlag, Vienna Cologne Graz 1987, ISBN 3-205-05096-7 .

Web links

Commons : Evangelische Pfarrkirche Bad Hall  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c 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. 119-121 .
  2. ↑ a b c Helmut K. Koehrer: Evangelical Upper Austria today . 1st edition. Almesberger, Linz 1994, p. 27-32 .
  3. ↑ The Protestant Church in Bad Hall. Evangelical Parish AB Bad Hall-Kremsmünster, June 5, 2018, accessed on June 5, 2018 .
  4. ^ Peter F. Barton: Evangelical in Austria . 1st edition. Böhlau, Vienna Cologne Graz 1987, ISBN 3-205-05096-7 , p. 129, 203 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 2 ′ 16.1 ″  N , 14 ° 12 ′ 27 ″  E