Parish Church St. Antonius (Linz)

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Parish Church of St. Antonius

The parish church of St. Anthony is a St. Anthony of Padua consecrated parish church in Linz district Scharlinz . It was built between 1980 and 1981 at the intersection of Wiener Strasse and Salzburger Strasse.

history

With industrialization, Linz expanded to the south, which caused the population of the Kleinmünchen and Scharlinz districts to rise sharply. In the newly created residential areas of Scharlinz, the population wanted their own church in the interwar period due to the distance to the parish church of Kleinmünchen. In 1929 the pastor Josef Hollnsteiner from Kleinmünchen received the order to build a church in Scharlinz, and in the same year a church building association was established. After the first mass was celebrated on August 10, 1930 in the courtyard of the former kindergarten at Willingerstraße 22, the Scharlinz pastoral care center was built between 1932 and 1935 by City Planning Director Kurt Kühne, although only the parish hall could be completed. This served as an emergency church for decades . This emergency church was consecrated on June 16, 1935 by the prelate from St. Florian Vinzenz Hartl. On November 1, 1941, the parish exposure was raised before St. Antonius was elevated to the status of a parish on January 1, 1969. At the same time, the parish was excorporated from St. Florian Monastery. The church had previously been damaged by aerial bombs in World War II in 1944 and 1945 and restored in 1946.

The plans for today's church building began in 1976, with the planning being carried out by the Linz architect Friedrich Pechmann. The groundbreaking for the new building took place in April 1980, and the consecration was carried out by Bishop Franz Zauner on September 12, 1981. In November and December 1981 the kindergarten and the parish hall opened.

Building

The church area is located at a busy intersection, with a small green area between the buildings and the nearby traffic areas. In the center of the property are the church and the rectory on a paved forecourt, which were connected to the north by a covered corridor with bell carriers. The parish kindergarten was built north of the two buildings.

The parish church is a reinforced concrete skeleton structure with a rectangular floor plan. The main room in the center was designed as an octagon and provided with a four-sided, cross-crowned drum-like structure. The architect divided the individual floors with horizontal ribbon windows and eternit-clad frieze zones. The reinforced concrete construction was left visible inside with brick infills, while the roof structure consists of laminated beams. The altar and baptismal area was designed with Mühlviertel granite.

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. 581 f.

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Coordinates: 48 ° 16 ′ 24.2 "  N , 14 ° 18 ′ 44.1"  E