Hirschegg Cross Church

Kreuzkirche in Hirschegg

The Kreuzkirche Hirschegg is an Evangelical Lutheran church in the Kleinwalsertal in the municipality of Mittelberg in the village of Hirschegg with an egg-shaped floor plan.

history

The first services were held in 1925 in the Dr. Backer in the Schwende in Riezlern. In the course of the annexation of Austria to Hitler's Germany in 1939 the parish was detached from the Kreuzkirche am Ölrain in Bregenz and assigned as vicariate to the Christ parish in Oberstdorf . Because church services were forbidden in non-congregational premises from 1940, a prayer room was set up and consecrated in a former carpenter's workshop on Zwerenbach in Riezlern in what is now the Schwäbisch Gmünder-Haus school camp. The number of evangelical believers increased sharply in World War II and was further increased by refugees after 1945, so that a church building association was founded in 1949.

The Austrian Vicariate Church belongs to the mother parish Christ Church in Oberstdorf and is part of the Kempten deanery of the Augsburg parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria .

Kreuzkirche

Crucifix and two angels by Andreas Schwarzkopf

Organ by Paul Ott

The church stands on a hillside in the north of Hirschegg and was built from 1952 to 1953 according to the plans of the architect Gustav Gsaenger under the local construction management of the architect Fritz Horle from Obersdorf. Next to the egg-shaped nave under a hipped roof is a square tower with a tent roof. The sacristy and vestibule are under a pent roof. The parish room in the basement and the prayer room with sacristy on the ground floor each have a vestibule.

The prayer room has a flat wooden beam ceiling. At the altar there are figures of a crucifix and two angels from 1953 by the sculptor Andreas Schwarzkopf from Ruhpolding with a version by the painter Angela Gsaenger. The painting Gospel symbols on the gallery parapet from 1953 is by Angela Gsaenger.

In 1960 the church was structurally enlarged. The organ with 13  registers from 1961 is from the organ builder Ott from Göttingen. In 1962 a rectory and a sacristan's house were added to the church.

An almost identical church with an egg-shaped nave has been in the Wommelshausen district of Bad Endbach since 1965 and another one in Bodenmais with the Johanneskirche.

literature

• Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria: Vorarlberg. Mittelberg. Evangelical cruciform church in Hirschegg. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7031-0585-2 , page 312.

Web links

Commons : Kreuzkirche Hirschegg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage of the Kreuzkirche Hirschegg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Kleinwalsertal ( Memento of the original from October 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) 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. Irmin Schwendiger: The History of the Evangelical Lutheran Congregation in Kleinwalsertal, July 1993 
2. ↑ Kreuzkirche in Hirschegg ( Memento of the original from December 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. . Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria, bayern-evangelisch.de: Selection of churches worth seeing in the Augsburg parish , accessed on April 15, 2010
3. ↑ deanery Kempten bayern-evangelisch.de: deanery districts

Coordinates: 47 ° 20 ′ 39.4 ″  N , 10 ° 9 ′ 58.6 ″  E