Evangelical parish church of St. Wolfgang in the Salzkammergut

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Evangelical Church of St. Wolfgang in the Salzkammergut

The Evangelical Parish Church of St. Wolfgang in the Salzkammergut is located in the municipality of St. Wolfgang in the Salzkammergut in the Gmunden district of the Upper Austrian Salzkammergut . The church building was built between 1958 and 1959. The parish is part of the Evangelical Church AB in Austria and belongs to the Evangelical Superintendentur Upper Austria . The parish is integrated into the pastoral care room of the Evangelical Parish Church in Bad Ischl . The Church of St. Wolfgang is also called the Church of Peace . Under the title Evangelische Pfarrkirche AB , the sacred building is under monument protection ( list entry ).

The Protestant Church

The foundation stone was laid on November 9, 1958. In June 1959, Superintendent Wilhelm Mensing-Braun consecrated the small church.

The impetus for building a church came from the large number of Protestant summer guests and from the preachers at Lake Wolfgang. Pastor Schuhmann held lecture tours abroad in the middle of the 20th century and thereby collected donations for the building project. The donations for the Friedenskirche flowed from Gustav-Adolf-Werke in Brandenburg , Hessen-Nassau , the Palatinate , the Rhineland , the Netherlands , Switzerland , Sweden and the USA .

A building site was found in the 1950s on the shores of Lake Wolfgang near the train station (valley station) of the Schafbergbahn and Robert-Stolz-Straße. The church building is in the immediate vicinity of the Dietelbach, which forms the border between the federal states of Upper Austria and Salzburg. The planning of the small church was carried out by the Bad Ischler architect Heinz Karbus . The Ischl company Brandl was commissioned with the construction.

History of the Protestant Congregation

Most of the parishes in the Inner Salzkammergut became Protestant in the course of the Reformation and retained their (forbidden) Lutheran faith as an "underground church" in secret Protestantism even in the age of the Counter Reformation . The religious history of St. Wolfgang is excluded from this, as this area was pledged by the Habsburgs from 1506 to 1565 to the Prince Archbishopric of Salzburg due to chronic financial problems and was thus politically "abroad".

After the Prince Archbishops of Salzburg had cracked down on the Lutheran doctrine, the pilgrimage to the Catholic parish and pilgrimage church of St. Wolfgang was intensified again in the course of the Counter Reformation . A change in religious policy only happened through the tolerance patent of Emperor Joseph II. While in Gosau, Hallstatt and Bad Goisern tolerance congregations and tolerance prayer houses were constituted as early as 1782, in St. Wolfgang the prescribed number of 100 families or 500 evangelical individuals was by no means possible can be achieved.

In the middle of the 19th century, the neighboring town of Bad Ischl became the summer residence of the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I , which also increased tourism in the Wolfgangsee region. The Protestant summer guests in St. Wolfgang, Strobl and St. Gilgen had to visit the Protestant parish church in Bad Ischl to attend church services .

It was only after the Second World War that St. Wolfgang's own Protestant church could be built. The Friedenskirche was built from 1958 to 1959 on a plot of land at the end of Robert-Stolz-Straße, just before the beginning of the village of Ried .

The evangelical pastoral care room Bad Ischl is formed from the political communities Bad Ischl, St. Wolfgang, Strobl and St. Gilgen. The Friedenskirche is generally looked after by the pastor from Bad Ischl; in the summer months, additional pastors and pastors from Germany are available every year in St. Wolfgang. This support from spa preachers and vacation chaplains has a long tradition. The Protestant churches of St. Wolfgang and Bad Ischl are under monument protection.

Demographic peculiarity in the Salzkammergut

The political district of Gmunden has the highest density of Protestant communities of all 18 Upper Austrian district administrations. In the judicial district of Bad Ischl , to which St. Wolfgang also belongs, all seven political communities each have their own Protestant church building. About 20 percent of the population of the Bad Ischl court district is Protestant.

In the entire province of Upper Austria there are only three of around 440 parishes that are inhabited by an evangelical majority. These are the Salzkammergut communities of Gosau (75 percent Protestant), Obertraun and Bad Goisern (around 50 percent Protestant).

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  1. ↑ The official spelling is specified or shown in the list of the municipalities of the Upper Austrian provincial government on the Internet and on Statistics Austria: A look at the municipality
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ Peter Pfarl, Heinrich Marchetti: St. Wolfgang. 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. 1151-1155.
  4. ↑ a b c Ischler Heimatverein (Ed.): Bad Ischl Heimatbuch 2004 . Rudolf Wimmer, Bad Ischl 2004, ISBN 3-900998-70-1 , p. 598-601 .
  5. ^ Peter F. Barton: Evangelical in Austria . 1st edition. Böhlau Verlag , Vienna Cologne Graz 1987, ISBN 3-205-05096-7 , p. 129, 203 .
  6. ^ Evangelical parish of St. Wolfgang. (No longer available online.) Evangelische Pfarrgemeinde AB Bad Ischl, December 2, 2015, archived from the original on December 25, 2015 ; accessed on December 24, 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.evangbadischl.at

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