Johanneskirche (Linz)
The Johanneskirche is a Protestant parish church in the Neue Heimat district of Linz . It was built in 1965 according to plans by Hubert Taferner .
Parish history
The southern districts of Linz belonged to the Evangelical Parish AB Linz-Innere Stadt until the end of World War II. With the end of the war, the influx of refugees, especially Transylvanian Saxons, increased the number of Protestant residents. Therefore, in 1953, the Evangelical Parish Linz-Süd was founded, which included the south of Linz, but also Enns, or around 6,000 people. The Christ Church was available to the faithful of the Linz-Süd parish for church services. The Linz-Neue Heimat subsidiary was founded in 1971 under Pastor Adolf Strohriegel (1964–1975). The first curator of the subsidiary community was Johann Schöllnberger (1971–1973), his successors were Heinrich Harbauer (1973–1977) and Johann Kress (1977–1978). On November 1, 1978, the daughter parish was raised to the status of an independent parish in Linz-Südwest. The first curator of the newly founded parish was Johann Kress (1978–1982), he was followed by Hans Bukowiecki (1982–1991) and again from 1991 to 1993 by Johann Kress. From 1993 to 2010 Sigrid Hawa was the municipality's first female curator, and Jochen Frenzel has been in office since 2011. Klaus Schacht (1975–1990) and from 1991 Wilhelm Todter were active as pastors. After Todter left the parish in 2013 and the pastor of Linz-Süd retired, the two parishes faced new challenges. In addition, at the beginning of the 21st century there were only a little more than 1,000 believers living in the parish of Linz-Südwest, compared to only 1,400 believers in Linz-Süd. As early as 2012 there were therefore considerations for cooperation between the two parishes. In September 2013, the two communities initially formed a community association through which joint activities were initiated. On October 23, 2014 the decision of the two parishes followed in a joint parish council meeting to reunify the parishes of Linz-Südwest and Linz-Süd. The reunification under the name "Evangelische Pfarrgemeinde AB Linz-Süd" came into force on January 1st, 2016. Regular services have only been celebrated in St. John's Church since December 2014.
Parish area
The parish area extends in the north to the west bridge at the Bindermichl junction and runs in the east along the Mühlkreis motorway to the south to the city limits on the Traun. In the south, the Traun forms the city limits, in the south-west it follows the city limits to Salzburger Strasse, then runs north along Haidfeldstrasse to “Bauer in Oed” in the Leondinger urban area and then to the east to the intersection of Wegscheider Strasse and city limits. Then the parish border runs again along the city limits to the Westbahn and follows this to the Westbrücke.
Building
The complex, built in 1965, consists of the Johanneskirche with an adjoining rectory and a free-standing tower. The buildings are grouped around a forecourt and are set back slightly from the street. The parish church is an elongated reinforced concrete skeleton structure with a gable roof and a recessed rectangular choir protruding to the southeast. While the load-bearing parts were painted dark brown, the walls appear in pure concrete. The architect placed a large, grid-like system of reinforced concrete beams in front of the entrance in the north, behind which there are alternating walled and glazed areas. In the pediment there is a concrete-cast relief figure showing Christ with a book flanked by a lamb and a book. To the west of the church is the rectory, which extends over the length of the nave. It is a single-storey, flat-roofed reinforced concrete building that was made accessible from the forecourt of the church in the east. The two buildings are dominated by a 40 meter high reinforced concrete tower, which consists of four storey blocks and is crowned by a cross.
The interior of the Johanneskirche is entered through a glazed porch, to which a gallery protrudes far into the room on two supports. The walls have largely remained in pure concrete, only in the west is there a whitewashed brick infill between the reinforced concrete columns. The architect had the eastern nave wall glazed, giving the room uniform lighting. The chancel was raised by three steps, with the rectangular choir being accentuated by colored glass windows. The most striking interior features are larger-than-life concrete relief figures of Christ and the Apostles on the front wall of the choir. They were designed by Walter Ritter.
literature
- Herfried Thaler, Bernhard Prokisch and others: Austrian Art Topography, Volume LV “The profane architectural and art monuments of the city of Linz”, III. Part: Outside areas, Urfahr, Ebelsberg. Berger & Söhne, Ferdinand, 2001, published by the Federal Monuments Office, Department for Inventory and Monument Research, ISBN 978-3-85028-343-4 , p. 575 f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Evangelical Church AB Upper Austria
- ↑ Evangelische Kirche AB Oberösterreich ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 48 ° 15 ′ 18.9 ″ N , 14 ° 17 ′ 18.6 ″ E