List of parishes in the Gloggnitz deanery

The deanery Gloggnitz is a deanery in the vicariate Unter dem Wienerwald of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vienna .

Parishes with church buildings and chapels

parish	Parish Association	Ink.	since	Patronage	Church buildings and chapels
Dunkelstein-Blindendorf (parish exposition )	Schwarzatal		1947	St. Peter and Paul	Branch church Dunkelstein-Blindendorf
Edlach on the Rax	Rax area		1947	Holy Spirit	Parish church Edlach an der Rax Hirschwang branch church
Gloggnitz	Gloggnitz		1094	Christ the King	Catholic parish church Gloggnitz Former parish and monastery church in Schloss Gloggnitz , Filialkirche Stuppach , Filialkirche Schlöglmühl , St.Othmar Chapel in Gloggnitz, Chapel in Eichberg, chapel in country pensioners and nursing home Gloggnitz, Chapel in Wörth
Klamm am Semmering			around 1100	St. Martin	Parish church Klamm am Semmering Breitenstein branch church
Kranichberg	Gloggnitz		1784	St. Philipp and St. Christoph	Parish church of Kranichberg Chapel in the Kranichberg Castle
Payerbach	Rax area		1094	St. Jacob the Elder	Parish Church Payerbach Chapel in Küb, chapel on Kreuzberg, chapel in Werning
Prein on the Rax	Rax area		around 1400	Pauli conversion	Parish church Prein an der Rax Raxkircherl ( Diocese of Graz-Seckau )
Prigglitz	Gloggnitz		before 1264	St. Nicholas	Parish Church of Prigglitz Filial church St. Christoph
Raach am Hochgebirge	Gloggnitz		after 1570	St. Aegid	Parish church Raach am Hochgebirge Chapel in Wartenstein Castle
Reichenau on the Rax	Rax area		1908	St. Barbara	Parish church Reichenau an der Rax
Schottwien			1784	St. Vitus	Parish church Schottwien
Semmering		Maria Schutz (OP)	1934	Holy Family	Semmering parish church Matrikenstelle Maria Schutz , Chapel Sonnwendstein
St. Valentin country chess	Schwarzatal	Heiligenkreuz (OCist)	before 1544	St. Valentine	Parish church of St. Valentin-Landschach Chapel in Landschach, chapel in Göttschach, branch church Köttlach , branch church Penk , branch church Putzmannsdorf , chapel in Hilzmannsdorf, chapel in Ober-Danegg, St. Vitus chapel in Penk, chapel in Altendorf, chapel in Grafenbach
Wimpassing in the Black Valley	Schwarzatal		1960	Immaculate Heart of Mary	Parish church Wimpassing in the Black Valley Chapel of the old community of Wimpassing

Deanery Gloggnitz

The deanery comprises 13 parishes and a branch in southern Lower Austria with around 8,500 Catholics.

Diocesan development process

On November 29, 2015, development areas were defined for all parishes in the Archdiocese of Vienna. The parishes should work more closely together in the development areas, form parish associations or pastoral care rooms. At the end of the process, new parishes should emerge from the development areas. The following development areas have been defined in the Deanery Gloggnitz:

Gloggnitz, Klamm am Semmering, Kranichberg, Prigglitz, Raach am Hochgebirge, Schottwien and Semmering
- Subunit 1: Gloggnitz, Kranichberg, Prigglitz and Raach am Hochgebirge
- Subunit 2: Klamm am Semmering, Schottwien and Semmering
Edlach an der Rax, Payerbach, Prein an der Rax and Reichenau an der Rax
St. Valentin-Landschach, Wimpassing in the Schwarzatale and Dunkelstein-Blindendorf

The Pottschach parish became part of the Neunkirchen deanery on September 1, 2016 .

Deans

until 2018: Heimo Sitter, pastor of Payerbach and provisional of Reichenau an der Rax
from 2018: Josef Riegler, parish moderator in Wimpassing in the Schwarzatale and expositus in Dunkelstein-Blindendorf

Web links

Gloggnitz - the deanery of the magic mountains

Individual evidence

[1] Deanery Gloggnitz

[2] Diocesan Gazette of the Archdiocese of Vienna special issue November 2015