Parish Church of St. Peter (Linz)

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Parish Church of St. Peter

The parish church Linz-St. Peter stands in the Linz district of Spallerhof , Waldegg in Upper Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Petrus belongs to the dean's office Linz-Süd in the diocese of Linz .

history

As early as 1111, a church was mentioned in a document in the village of St. Peter in der Zizlau . From 1147 to 1149 a church was built by the St. Peter monastery (Salzburg) and the cathedral chapter of the Archdiocese of Salzburg not far from the confluence of the Traun into the Danube and consecrated to St. Peter. In 1851 St. Peter became an independent parish, and in 1863 also a parish. In 1915 St. Peter was incorporated into Linz .

After the annexation of Austria , the whole place including the church was demolished and the Reichswerke Hermann Göring (today voestalpine ) built there. Most of the population was relocated to the newly built Spallerhof district. On June 29, 1939, the last mass was celebrated in St. Peter as part of the patronage.

After the Second World War, the Spallerhof, an old farm that was first used as the NSDAP and later as the SPÖ party club, was acquired by the diocese and an emergency church was built there in 1958. On January 1st 1960 the church was officially elevated to the parish of St. Peter and, as the successor parish, took over all rights of the former parish of St. Peter / Zizlau.

Today's church in Wallenbergstrasse was built from 1963 to 1964 according to plans by Franz Steininger and consecrated by Bishop Franz Zauner on September 6, 1964 . The glass windows and the Way of the Cross were designed by Alfred Stifter , the pictures of St. Peter and Maria Magdalenas come from Jakob Zanusi from the 17th century from the old church.

literature

  • The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Linz 2009 . Linz outside areas between the Danube and Traun, sacred buildings, parish church St. Peter am Spallerhof, p. 356.

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Coordinates: 48 ° 16 '24.3 "  N , 14 ° 18' 2.2"  E