Jakob Ernst Koch (Senior, 1797)

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Jakob Ernst Koch , Jakob Ernst Koch (I.) or Jakob Ernst Koch (II.) , (Born April 28, 1797 in Wallern an der Trattnach ; † October 16, 1856 there ), was pastor of the Protestant parish in Wallern , Senior and most recently administrator of the Evangelical Superintendentur AB Upper Austria .

Life

The Trinity Church built by Pastor Jakob Ernst II (photo taken around 1900)

He was the son of the Protestant pastor Jakob Koch (1744-1822) from Ortenburg near Passau, who gave up his vicarage in Nuremberg after the Edict of Tolerance was issued and settled in the Upper Austrian community of Wallern in 1782, where the Protestant parish offered him the parish office has been.

Jakob Ernst completed his theological studies in Tübingen . After the death of his father, he became a pastor in Wallern, where he inaugurated a new schoolhouse for Protestant children that same year. However, due to the lack of financial resources, he had to hold the services for decades in the prayer house that the parish had made available to his father.

Around 1848 Koch, who had little knowledge of the building trade, began to draw plans for a new church, which he handed over to the master builder Carl Alexander Heideloff to work out. Since he only wanted a church in the neo-Gothic style and not, as he wished, in the arched style , Koch turned to an accomplished mason from his community, who concretized his ideas and put them into practice. On May 1, 1851, the foundation stone for the new Trinity Church was laid in a solemn act . In 1852 construction had progressed so far that the stone altar could be erected, for which a special permit was required.

In 1855 he became a senior of the Protestant parishes in Attersee, Eferding, Goisern, Hallstatt, Linz, Neukematen, Rutzenmoos, Scharten, Thening, Wallern and Wels. After the death of superintendent Johann Theodor Wehrenfennig , he took over his official duties as his deputy. In this capacity, before he died at the age of 59, he was able to lay the foundation stone for the new Evangelical Church in the field in Thening .

Appreciation

In his time, Koch was one of the most important theologians of the Protestant Church in Austria . As a participant in the Vienna shop steward's conference, which advised on the design of the Protestant church constitution, and as a delegate at various foreign church conferences, he was able to make important contributions. The lecture given at the Upper Austrian Provincial Landtag on August 8, 1848: More detailed presentation of the way in which the principle of perfect equality of the Christian denomination in relation to the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in the state of whether the Enns is to be developed and to its various Conditions , of which a memorandum was later published, was also praised by the Catholic side.

Varia

Jakob Ernst Koch was a staunch Upper Austrian who, unlike his father, was able to express himself very fluently in dialect. When the first free elections were held at community level in Wallern on the basis of the law of March 17, 1849, he was elected to the community committee with three other co-religionists.

Familiar

Jakob Ernst Koch was married to Elisabeth Hofer (1810–1860) , the daughter of a large farmer in Wallern, who gave birth to seven sons and three daughters. Of the male descendants, three - Jakob Ernst Koch (Superintendent, 1836) , Josef Friedrich Koch and August Georg Koch - devoted themselves to pastoral care. Of the other sons, Gustav Adolf Koch should be mentioned, who was rector at the Vienna University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences.

literature

Klebek Th. A., In memory of our accomplished Jacob Ernst Koch, senior and superintendent of the Protestant congregations AC in Upper Austria and Pastor zu Wallern. Linz, at Jos. Wimmer 1856, Octav, 35 pages

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ This numbering is used in the Austrian Biographical Lexicon and serves to differentiate between the bearers of the same name. It does not correspond to the numbering used in Protestant literature, which assigns the ordinal number to each member from the pastoral dynasty Koch who works in Wallern according to the chronological order of his work.
  2. ↑ Allgemeine Kirchen Zeitung, February 11, 1855, p. 1
  3. ^ Wiener Zeitung, January 28, 1853, p. 11
  4. ^ Die Presse, August 7, 1852, p. 3
  5. ↑ Provinzial-Handbuch von Österreich ob der Enns and Salzburg, 1855, p. 223 [1]
  6. ^ Neue Salzburger Zeitung, July 3, 1856, p. 2
  7. ^ Karl W. Schwarz: The Austrian Protestantism in the mirror of its legal history, p. 112
  8. ↑ Dietlind Pichler, Bürgerertum und Protestantismus p. 243
  9. ^ Yearbook of the Society for the History of Protestantism in Austria, 2004, p. 217
personal data
SURNAME Koch, Jakob Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koch, Jakob Ernst II. (Numbering in Protestant literature); Koch, Jakob Ernst I. (numbering in the ÖBL)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian senior and superintendent deputy of the Protestant Church
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1797
PLACE OF BIRTH Wallern on the Trattnach
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1856
Place of death Wallern on the Trattnach