Evangelical parish church in Ramsau am Dachstein
The Evangelical Parish Church of Ramsau am Dachstein is located in the Ennstal community of Ramsau am Dachstein .
Faith story
Ramsau was already committed to the Protestant faith in the 16th century. Saxon miners who worked in Schladming brought Lutheran books and writings to the residents. When Schladming was destroyed as a punishment due to the peasant revolt, the aversion to the predominant Roman church there and to the state power grew . The Reformation was harshly prevented by the ruling, strictly Catholic Habsburg dynasty . From there on the people had to profess the Catholic faith , which was monitored by the religious commission. Even so, people did not stop reading the Lutheran Bible and being convinced of the evangelical faith. Secret devotions were held and Luther Bibles were smuggled into Ramsau.
After the announcement of the tolerance patent by Emperor Joseph II in 1781, almost all of the residents committed to the Protestant faith and founded the first Styrian tolerance community in 1782 with the South German Samuel Carl Tobias Hirschmann as preacher . In 1783 the prayer house was built.
Prayer and rectory
After disagreements about the choice of place for the prayer house, the Judenburg district office determined the building site in 1783 . Construction took place that same year. The house was divided into two parts. The prayer room was on the upper floor , below which there was a school and teaching apartment until 1795, and the pastor's apartment and chancellery and ancillary rooms in the eastern part of the house .
The central location and size of the prayer house showed the importance of the Protestant Church compared to the previously dominant Catholic Church in Ramsau.
Church building
history
In 1871 it was decided to build a church, but it was not implemented until 1886 by the pastor Carl Hilpert. Via the German Association of Christian Art, the community commissioned the Nuremberg architect Hans Kieser (1853–1925) with the planning. He designed a late historical , predominantly neo-Romanesque church, which was accepted with minor changes. The owner of the Pehabgut provided a suitable piece of land not far from the prayer house. On September 8, 1888, the difficult and laborious construction of the church began with the laying of the foundation stone. The church was opened on August 15, 1895 through volunteer work and financial sacrifice after nearly seven years of construction. Since then, it has been called the most beautiful Protestant church in Styria several times.
Building description
The church is slightly elevated in the town center. It rises on a cross ground plan and, with its west tower and east-facing choir, is based on the " Eisenacher Regulativ " from 1861. The mixture of rough plastered walls and natural stone elements on the structure, as well as round arch friezes or buttresses , gives the church a special effect. It consists of a five-storey tower and side stair turrets , a two-axis nave (39 meters), a transept (24.5 meters) and a church tower (42 meters high) with a tent roof. The church is divided into two floors by a surrounding coffin cornice.
inner space
Structure of the interior
The interior of the nave and transept are divided into two floors by a comprehensive wooden gallery . The main entrance for visitors is in the tower and the side entrance on the south facade. You will be welcomed by a hall church with pressed cap barrels in the two-bay nave and the transept, which has a yoke on both sides. The belt arches of the vaults are supported on consoles which are decorated with cube and anthemion friezes . The transept has two large wheeled windows and the tower has arched windows and a representation of the blessing Christ .
altar
The altar consists of a three-axis structure. In the middle picture the crucifixion of Christ is shown. On the sides there are pictures of the apostles Paul and John. To the left of the altar there is a statue of the risen, blessing Christ in a niche . To the right of the altar, in the sloping choir, there is a pulpit on pillars .
Trivia
In the television series Die Bergretter , the emergency call center is located directly below the church, the south side of which therefore often appears in the picture.
literature
- Karl Dinges: History of the Protestant Ramsau am Dachstein in the context of Austrian church history . Ramsau 1966.
Web links
- http://www.evang.st/orte/pfarrgemeinden/aich-tg/ Ramsau am Dachstein
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christian Brugger, Heimo Kaindl, Antje Senarcies de Grancy: Protestant art and culture in Styria . Ed .: Ernst Christian Gerhold, Johann-Georg Haditsch. Leykam, Graz 1996, ISBN 3-7011-7340-0 , p. 188 .
- ↑ Manfred H. Grieb (Ed.): Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon. Saur, Munich 2007, pp. 776f., There, however, confusion with “Ramsau bei Berchtesgaden”; Hans Roessler: Hans Kieser . In: Journal for Bavarian Church History 70, 2001, pp. 180–191.
- ↑ Christian Brugger, Heimo Kaindl, Antje Senarcies de Grancy: Protestant art and culture in Styria . Ed .: Ernst Christian Gerhold, Johann-Georg Haditsch. Leykam, Graz 1996, ISBN 3-7011-7340-0 , p. 188-190 .
- ↑ schladming-dachstein.at
Coordinates: 47 ° 25 ′ 21.6 ″ N , 13 ° 39 ′ 16.3 ″ E