Evangelical parish church Ebensee am Traunsee

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The Evangelical Church Ebensee am Traunsee

The Evangelical Parish Church Ebensee am Traunsee in the municipality Ebensee am Traunsee in the Gmunden district in Upper Austria dates from 1952 to 1953. The parish is part of the Evangelical Church AB in Austria and belongs to the Evangelical Superintendentur Upper Austria . The community is integrated into the pastoral care room of the Evangelical Parish Church in Gmunden . The Ebenseer church is also called Gnadenkirche . Under the title Evangelische Pfarrkirche AB Gnadenkirche it is under monument protection ( list entry ).

The Protestant Church

The church came into being through international cooperation. The parish in Wädenswil (Canton Zurich) bought the building site at Pestalozzi Square and donated it to the Ebenseern. The Gmundner architect Hubert Matuschek drafted the plan for the building project.

From July 1952, students from the USA (Brethren Church), volunteers from Germany (especially Baden and Württemberg), a construction warehouse of the Mennonite Church and volunteer construction workers from Ebensee worked alternately on the construction. After around 24,000 unpaid hours of work, the parish fair was celebrated on October 18, 1953. The name Gnadenkirche was chosen on the basis of this experience of cooperation.

Architect Matuschek also used stylistic elements from the Bavarian-Austrian Baroque. Therefore, the church tower was made with an onion helmet . The official apartment and the community hall are attached directly to the hall church.

History of the Protestant Congregation

In Ebensee evangelicals can still be proven around 1625, this can be seen from the logs of the book seizures. Lutheran books were banned in the age of the Counter Reformation and were confiscated by the state authorities. The period of secret Protestantism lasted until the tolerance patent of 1781. While independent parishes could be founded in other parts of the Salzkammergut as early as the 18th century, such as the tolerance community Bad Goisern and the tolerance community Gosau , the number in Ebensee was still too low. From 1782 the pastorate Rutzenmoos took care of it and from 1870 the pastorate Gmunden. Only in the 19th century did the Protestant proportion increase due to the immigration of woodworkers and saltworkers from the Ischl and Gosau valleys.

The preaching station was established in 1920, followed by the preaching station in 1945. In the 1950s, Ebensee was able to establish itself as a subsidiary community with its own church and parish center. The Gnadenkirche in Ebensee was built in 1952/53 and is now a listed building. From 1953 to 1975 Hans Krempl was the curator of the daughter church, followed by Franz Swoboda, who also held many church services as a lecturer . The daughter parishes of Laakirchen , Scharnstein and Ebensee belong to the Protestant parish of Gmunden . Alexander Hagmüller and Gustav Klosius are now in office as Gmunden pastors. The curator for the Ebensee subsidiary is Wolfgang Trinkl.

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Demographic peculiarity

In the district of Gmunden , the Evangelical Church AB is represented with the greatest area coverage in relation to the federal state of Upper Austria , as more than half of the 20 political communities have an Evangelical church building.

In the judicial district of Bad Ischl , to which Ebensee also belongs, full pastoral coverage has been achieved. The judicial district is made up of seven political parishes and therefore has seven evangelical sacred buildings. In the Bad Ischl court district, the proportion of Protestants in the total population is over 20 percent.

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f 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.
  2. ^ Reinhard Mittendorfer, Heinrich Marchetti: Ebensee. Community mirror and history . 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. 827-830.
  3. ^ Peter F. Barton: Evangelical in Austria . 1st edition. Böhlau Verlag , Vienna Cologne Graz 1987, ISBN 3-205-05096-7 , p. 129, 203 .
  4. ↑ Gnadenkirche Ebensee. Daughter parish of the parish of Gmunden. Evangelical Superintendentur AB Upper Austria, December 1, 2014, accessed on April 20, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Evangelical daughter church Ebensee. Evangelische Pfarrgemeinde AB Gmunden, December 1, 2014, accessed on April 19, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Evangelical parish Ebensee. (No longer available online.) Ebensee market town office, December 1, 2014, archived from the original on September 23, 2015 ; Retrieved April 19, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ebensee.at

Coordinates: 47 ° 48 ′ 11.9 "  N , 13 ° 46 ′ 33.7"  E