Protestant prayer house Obertraun

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The Evangelical Prayer House Obertraun in the Upper Austrian municipality of Obertraun in the Salzkammergut is a preaching station under canon law, which corresponds roughly to a branch church . The prayer house is integrated into the parish of the Evangelical Parish Church in Hallstatt . The parish Hallstatt – Obertraun of the Evangelical Church AB in Austria belongs to the Evangelical Superintendentur Upper Austria . The sacred building is under monument protection with the designation Evangelical School and Prayer House ( list entry ).

Protestant prayer house Obertraun

History of the Protestant Parish

The Reformation found its way into the Salzkammergut around 1550, and the Counter-Reformation began around 1600 , so that the Lutheran faith in the Inner Salzkammergut only continued as a secret Protestantism as an "underground church". After Emperor Joseph II proclaimed the tolerance patent in 1781 , the tolerance community of Goisern (1782), the tolerance community of Gosau (1784) and the tolerance prayer house in Hallstatt (1785) were formed.

From 1782 to 1836 Hallstatt and Obertraun belonged to the pastorate of Bad Goisern, and in 1837 it was elevated to an independent parish. The people of Obertraun either had to hold church services in private homes (house worship services) or cross Lake Hallstatt by boat to get to Hallstatt's tolerance prayer house (or from 1863 to the parish church). The Protestant cemetery is dated to 1846, Catholics have only been buried in Obertraun since 1878.

In 1906, the school building was fundamentally rebuilt under Pastor Friedrich von Sattler and inaugurated as a prayer house. In 1920 Hallstatt and Obertraun, which until then had been one place, separated into two independent political communities. In terms of church, however, the communities remained united, which is why Hallstatt is the seat of the parish church and Obertraun is set up as a preaching station. The Protestant parish church in Hallstatt and the Protestant prayer house in Obertraun are listed.

In 2006, the 100th anniversary of the Obertraun prayer house was celebrated.

The Protestant school and prayer house

The building is one of the oldest houses in Obertraun. In 1774 a state trivial school was opened. In the middle of the 19th century, the Princess of Hohenzollern-Hechingen donated 4,500 Austrian guilders to set up a Protestant private elementary school .

The school building was converted into a Protestant prayer house in 1906 , which does not have the architecture of a church from the outside. Since it was only dedicated in the 20th century, it is not a tolerance prayer house in the sense of the tolerance patent from 1781.

In 2014 the prayer house was completely renovated.

Demographic peculiarity

The judicial district of Bad Ischl , which consists of the seven political communities Bad Goisern , Bad Ischl , Ebensee , Gosau , Hallstatt , Obertraun and St. Wolfgang , has seven Protestant church buildings. Such a high proportion of Protestant places of worship as in the Salzkammergut is only achieved in a few Austrian areas. About half of the population of Obertraun is Protestant.

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  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. ^ Peter F. Barton: Evangelical in Austria . 1st edition. Böhlau , Vienna Cologne Graz 1987, ISBN 3-205-05096-7 , p. 129, 203 .
  3. ^ A b Roman Pilz, Heinrich Marchetti: Obertraun. 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. p. 1074.

Coordinates: 47 ° 33 '31.8 "  N , 13 ° 41' 2.8"  E