Expositurkirche Steyrermühl

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Parish exposition church hl. Josef in Steyrermühl near Laakirchen

The Steyrermühl Expositurkirche (also: Steyrermühl parish exposition church ) is located in the Steyrermühl settlement of the Upper Austrian municipality of Laakirchen in the Gmunden district . The Roman Catholic Church is a branch church ("quasi-parish church") and belongs to the pastoral care room of the parish church of Laakirchen in the Gmunden deanery of the Linz diocese . Church patron is St. Joseph the worker . The sacred building is named Kath. Pfarrkirche hl. Josef and pastoral care center under monument protection .

history

In 1941 the district of Steyrermühl was declared a chaplain of the Laakirchen parish, but there was no church yet. 1953–1956 the parish built the first, no longer existing, Joseph's Church.

On January 1 , 1959, Diocesan Bishop Franz Salesius Zauner elevated the previous chaplaincy to a parish exposition. With the upgrade to a "quasi-parish", Steyrermühl received a high degree of independence compared to the mother parish of Laakirchen. From August 1959 to 1980 the respective pastor of the Lindach parish church was also the " Expositus " of Steyrermühl, then the responsibility changed back to the original parish .

The "old" Josefskirche, consecrated in 1957, showed the first cracks in the masonry as early as 1960. In the following years renovations were carried out again and again, but the shifts in the church walls could not be stopped. When the Steyrermühl AG paper factory began to expand the factory in 1987, the factory bought the old church and made land available for a new sacred building.

The groundbreaking for the new building was on October 22nd, 1988 on the so-called “Höllerwiese” in Brunntalstrasse, so that the church moved from the edge to the center of the village of Steyrermühl. The first service was celebrated on December 1, 1990. The church was consecrated by Diocesan Bishop Maximilian Aichern on April 26, 1991.

Church furnishings

The pastoral care center is divided into the church, the rectory and an apartment on the upper floor. The building has three entrances. The main entrance leads into a two-story hall, which connects the church and the rectory.

The pews of the previous church were used for the interior of the church. The wooden roof construction is spatially unfolded, there are lighting areas in the roof ridge. The wooden construction should be a reference to the carpentry work of the church patron.

Also from the earlier church are the statue of the Virgin Mary in the altar area, the fish ornament window above the southern door element of the church vestibule and the relief crucifixion group in the baptismal area. There is a colored round window (lead-glazed light band) near the baptismal font.

Both the former church from the 1950s and the present church of Steyrermühl received as patron saint of the Holy. Joseph the worker . The day of remembrance of the church patron is May 1st. In 1956, Pope Pius XII led the additional Joseph Festival. a. The previous church was one of the first Josef-der-Arbeiter-Kirchen in Austria. In the Gmunden district there is another Josefs church, the Reindlmühl branch church.

Picture gallery

  • East view

  • Northeast view

  • inside view

  • window

Parish exposure

Steyrermühl is a parish exposure in the sense of can. 516 CIC / 83 . An expositur has all the characteristics of a parish to the outside world: for example, its own church, pastor, parish office, parish council and the diocese's own parish number.

The Expositur is thus in the rank of a chaplain and a branch church , but does not yet have all the rights of a "complete" parish in terms of canon law, it is a "quasi-parish". The pastor of Steyrermühl is therefore not referred to as a pastor, but as a parish moderator .

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.
  • Roman Catholic Parish office of the parish exposition Steyrermühl (ed.): Consecration of the St. Joseph's Church in Steyrermühl . Self-published, Laakirchen 1991.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Upper Austria - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento from June 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 27, 2014 (PDF).
  2. ↑ a b c d e Roman Catholic Parish office of the parish exposition Steyrermühl (ed.): Consecration of the St. Joseph's Church in Steyrermühl . Self-published, Laakirchen 1991, p. 3-25 .
  3. ^ Heinrich Marchetti: Laakirchen and the district of Steyrermühl. 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. 1043-1045.
  4. ↑ a b Parish of Steyrermühl. Roman Catholic Parish office in Steyrermühl, December 1, 2015, accessed on January 2, 2016 .
  5. ↑ On behalf of the German and Berlin Bishops' Conference, the Austrian Bishops' Conference, the Swiss Bishops' Conference and the Bishops of Bozen-Brixen, Luxembourg, Liège, Metz and Strasbourg (ed.): Codex Iuris Canonici. Code of Canon Law. Latin-German edition . 3. Edition. Butzon & Bercker, Kevelaer 1989, ISBN 3-7666-9642-4 , pp. 235 .
  6. ↑ Episcopal Ordinariate / Pastoral Office (ed.): Yearbook of the Diocese of Linz 2011 . Veritas, Linz 2010, ISBN 978-3-7058-8871-5 , p. 120, 133 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 59 ′ 31.1 ″  N , 13 ° 48 ′ 27.9 ″  E