Evangelical parish church in Gmunden

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Evangelical parish church in Gmunden

The Evangelical Parish Church Gmunden in the district capital Gmunden in Upper Austria dates from the years 1871 to 1876. The church is a parish church of the Evangelical Church AB in Austria and belongs to the Evangelical Superintendentur Upper Austria . The sacred building is under monument protection with the name Evangelical Resurrection Church ( list entry ).

The Protestant parish church

On December 14, 1870, a meadow in the Traundorf district was bought from the state, the construction work lasted from 1871 to 1876. The inauguration of the Resurrection Church took place on September 10, 1876. The Protestant dynasty of the Guelphs contributed significantly to the construction costs . After the Prussian occupation of the Kingdom of Hanover , the former royal family of Hanover had moved into a residence in exile in Gmunden, the Cumberland Castle .

The Protestant church in Gmunden was built in the form of neo-Gothic (old English style). The architect Hermann Wehrenfennig designed the plan . Wehrenfennig also planned other sacred buildings, such as the Protestant churches in Gosau and Vöcklabruck.

The stained glass windows in the apse were a gift from the House of Hanover. The church facades are decorated with offshoots of the rose bush from the cathedral in Hildesheim. The organ was donated by King George V of Hanover , it was rebuilt in 1913 and significantly expanded.

The church is designed for 500 seats. The construction was carried out by master bricklayer Lechner from Gmunden. The processing of the reddish limestone (Hirlatz Kalk) took place over a period of five years by Italian stonemasons directly on the building site. The tower cross and the consecration of the small bell in the roof turret are dated November 2, 1875. The Oberascher company cast three bronze bells for the large bell tower in 1876, the (originally) two-manual organ with 18 registers was created by Ludwig Mooser in Salzburg.

The oil painting The Last Supper on the right side of the altar is by the Munich painter Heinrich Vossberg. The colored church windows come from the Munich company Burkhart. The occasion for the new windows was the silver wedding of Duke Ernst August and Duchess Thyra in 1903. The donors from the family circle are placed below the church window. The Dresden painter Andräe created the altarpiece with the motif of the resurrection . The altar and pulpit were also donated by the Hanoverians, and the Gmundern Schnitzer Goebel used a Slavonian oak as material.

The church tower (next to the apse) is 41 meters high, the roof turret (above the entrance portal) 24 meters. The outside width of the church is almost 19 meters (without pillars), the supporting beam of the church ceiling is around 23 meters long.

History of the Protestant Parish

Like the other places in the Salzkammergut, the Reformation also found its way into the Traunseeort . Between 1550 and 1624 there were Protestant pastors in Gmunden. After the re-catholicization of the (today's) parish church in 1599, the Evangelicals built a church outside the city walls. In 1626, the residents were asked to either profess their Catholic faith by Easter or to leave the country. In the further course it came to the Upper Austrian Peasant War . The town of Pinsdorf , located in front of the Gmundner city gates, was the scene of a bloody battle in November 1626, with over 2,000 dead on the part of the rebels. After the rebellion was suppressed and Jesuits were installed in the nearby Traunkirchen monastery, the Counter-Reformation prevailed.

In 1781 Emperor Joseph II issued the Tolerance Patent , which allowed the formation of a parish if 100 families or 500 people profess the Protestant faith. While the tolerance community Bad Goisern (1782), the tolerance community Gosau (1784) and the tolerance prayer house Hallstatt (1785) were constituted in the Inner Salzkammergut, the number of souls in Gmunden was initially too small. The pastoral care was therefore incumbent on the tolerance community of Rutzenmoos (1782) near Regau .

From the mid-1860s, the House of Hanover spent its exile in Gmunden. Since the number of Protestants increased significantly as a result, the previous branch community could be detached from the pastoral care room Rutzenmoos in 1870 and raised to the status of an independent Protestant parish of Gmunden. The construction time for the Church of the Resurrection fell between 1871 and 1876. In 1900, Princess Marie Luise and Prince Max von Baden were married here, and in 1907 the funeral service for Queen Marie. Duke Ernst August von Cumberland was adopted in 1923 in the Gmunden Church.

The Evangelical Church of Vorchdorf was removed from the parish of Gmunden in 1970 and assigned to Stadl-Paura. Alexander Hagmüller and Gustav Klosius are now in office as Gmunden pastors. Additional curators are installed for the subsidiary congregations. The Resurrection Church in Gmunden and the Gnadenkirche Ebensee are listed monuments ( list entry ).

Today four churches belong to the Protestant parish of Gmunden:

  • Evangelical Church Gmunden, chancel

  • Evangelical Church Gmunden, baptistery

  • Evangelical Church Gmunden, Mooser organ

  • Evangelical Church Gmunden, chancel window

  • Evangelical Church Gmunden, interior view

Demographic peculiarity in the Gmunden district

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 northern part, the judicial district of Gmunden, there are 4 Protestant churches for every 13 political communities (Gmunden, Laakirchen , Scharnstein , Vorchdorf ).

In the southern part, the judicial district of Bad Ischl , full pastoral coverage has been achieved. There are 7 political communities in the Bad Ischl court district and therefore 7 evangelical sacred buildings (parish or branch churches in Bad Goisern , Bad Ischl , Ebensee , Gosau , Hallstatt , Obertraun , St. Wolfgang ). The places Gosau (75 percent), Obertraun (51 percent) and Bad Goisern (53 percent) are also the only three of the more than 440 Upper Austrian municipalities that have a Protestant majority.

literature

  • Association for the publication of a district book Gmunden (ed.): The district of Gmunden and its communities. From the beginning to the present . Upper Austrian Provincial Publishing House , Linz 1991.
  • Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.): Dehio-Handbuch Oberösterreich . 3. Edition. Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1958.
  • Peter F. Barton: Evangelical in Austria . 1st edition. Böhlau Verlag , Vienna Cologne Graz 1987, ISBN 3-205-05096-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e 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. ↑ Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.): Dehio-Handbuch Oberösterreich . 3. Edition. Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1958, p. 94 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f History of the Protestant community in Gmunden. (No longer available online.) Evangelische Pfarrgemeinde AB Gmunden, December 1, 2014, archived from the original on March 5, 2016 ; Retrieved December 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.evanggmunden.at
  4. ^ Heinrich Marchetti: Gmunden. 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. 865, 900-905, 920.
  5. ^ Peter F. Barton: Evangelical in Austria . 1st edition. Böhlau Verlag , Vienna Cologne Graz 1987, ISBN 3-205-05096-7 , p. 205 .
  6. ^ Evangelical parish of Gmunden. Evangelische Pfarrgemeinde AB Gmunden, December 1, 2014, accessed on December 19, 2015 .


Coordinates: 47 ° 55 ′ 6.6 "  N , 13 ° 48 ′ 22"  E