Evangelical Parish Church Leonding-Doppl
The Evangelical Parish Church of Leonding-Doppl is located in the town of Doppl in the municipality of Leonding in Upper Austria . The Lukaskirche is a parish church of the Evangelical Church AB in Austria and belongs to the Evangelical Superintendentur Upper Austria .
history
In the course of the tolerance patent (1781) of Emperor Joseph II. Secret Protestants reported in the Rufling district and in 1783 participated in the establishment of the parish of Thening . In 1850 the Linz parish broke away from Thening.
In the course of the Second World War , numerous Protestant refugees and expellees settled in Upper Austria in 1944 and 1945 and established settlements, as in Doppl. An inheritance (1950) from the parish of Linz led to the first considerations about establishing a church in Leonding. In November 1955, regular Protestant church services began in the Catholic parish hall. In 1963 the pastor Walter Böhmig took over the pastoral care. In April 1976 Leonding was elevated to the status of a preaching station and a committee was founded for this purpose, and from October 1976 the services were held in the music hall of the Leonding Trachtenkapelle. Project drafts by the architect Hubert Taferner were decided and then rejected and finally in 1977 a plan by the building consultant in the presbytery engineer Günther Holzner was decided and built.
The foundation stone was laid in November 1978 and was consecrated as St. Luke's Church on April 27, 1980. In 1986 a pastor's apartment and sexton's apartment was added to the parish church and ceremoniously consecrated in 1987. Rufling was parried from Thening to Leonding. The organ was consecrated in October 1989. In 2005 a parish office was set up and on January 1, 2006, Leonding became an independent parish and the church became a parish church.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 16 ′ 38.3 " N , 14 ° 15 ′ 10.6" E