Martin Luther Church (Linz)
The Martin Luther Church is an Evangelical Lutheran church in Linz . It was built between 1841 and 1844 according to plans by Johann Rueff in a classicist style. At that time it was still outside the Linz city limits, today it is on Landstrasse in the Neustadtviertel .
It is the main church of the Evangelical Superintendentur AB Upper Austria .
history
As a house of tolerance , the church was initially without a tower. As early as 1835 and 1838, the evangelical community repeatedly applied for permission to build a house of prayer in vain. This was finally granted on September 16, 1841. After the purchase of a plot of land on Linzer Landstrasse , construction began on March 30, 1842 and the finished building was inaugurated on October 20, 1844. The altarpiece by Franz Xaver Bobleter dates from 1844.
The tolerance patent , which was relevant for acatholic places of worship at the time, stated that tolerance prayer houses had to be set back 50 m from the street, otherwise they would dominate the street scene. From today's perspective, however, the church comes into its own because of the distance to the country road. The organ of the prayer house was inaugurated the following year, on August 24, 1845. Where there is now a commercial building and the community center, construction of the parish and school house began in 1849. The believers in Linz, which was previously considered a branch of Thening , became an independent congregation on January 5, 1850.
When the construction of the tower was approved (1853), the foundation stone was laid on July 23, 1854. More than five years later, on December 18, 1859, three bells were consecrated and when the tower building with neo-Gothic style elements was finished in 1862, the women of the community donated the golden tower cross. In 1910 the church was renovated. The theologian Wilhelm Mensing-Braun , originally from Bavaria, came to the parish as a pastor in 1928/1929.
In 1949 the church was renovated again, where it was named Martin Luther Church after Martin Luther . The evangelical community of Linz-Stadt was now called Linz-Mitte. From 1953 to 1980 Leopold Temmel worked as a pastor at the Martin Luther Church. In December 1955 the church service was broadcast for the first time on the radio, and the new organ was consecrated in 1962.
After the renewed renovation in 1997, the first service was held in the newly renovated church for the Reformation Festival on October 31, 1997, whereby the new tower cross was blessed, which was donated by the then curator Ulrike Pischulti. The newspaper of the “Linzer Kirchenbote - Nachrichten aus der Evangelische Gemeinde AB Linz ad D” first appeared in August 1928. Six years later, in 1934, “100 Years of the Evangelical Community of Linz” was celebrated (Linz had become a subsidiary of the Evangelical Parish of Thening in 1834). On the occasion of the 140th anniversary of the Martin Luther Church there was a festival service in October 1984, ten years later the Martin Luther Church celebrated its anniversary.
In mid-February 2006, the new organ from Rowan West's workshop was blessed. Due to the lively donation activity and funding, the organ is ideally suited for the interpretation of baroque organ music and it can not only be used to accompany the chant of church services, but also has a permanent place in the cultural life of Linz.
In autumn 2011 the church forecourt was redesigned. It now has a total area of around 2,000 m 2 . Around 1,900 were re-paved as part of the redesign.
organ
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- Coupling: RP / HW, HW / P, Rp / P
- Mood: Bach-Barnes
- a ′ = 440 Hz
literature
Austrian Art Topography, Volume XXXVI “The Linz Churches”, HG .: City of Linz and Institute for Austrian Art Research of the Federal Monuments Office, 2009.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Organ of the Marthin Luther Church , accessed on January 27, 2016.
Coordinates: 48 ° 18 ′ 1.7 ″ N , 14 ° 17 ′ 31.6 ″ E