Parish church of Steyr-Ennsleite
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The Roman Catholic parish church of Steyr-Ennsleite is located in the Ennsleite district of the city of Steyr in Upper Austria . The parish church of Josef der Arbeiter belongs to the Steyr deanery in the Linz diocese . The church and the parsonage as a pastoral care center are under monument protection .
history
The “Neustift Chapel” on the old Ramingstrasse was a place of worship for the people of Steyr until 1915. In the course of the construction of the new Steyr weapons factory , it was demolished and should be rebuilt at another location. Despite repeated urging, this did not happen in the following years, until the episcopal ordinariate decided “instead of the same in Ennsleiten, in a suitable place that could easily be enlarged at a later date, a modest Catholic church, at least a chapel in which mass is read can be built. The arms factory should take over or promote the construction
In 1933, after lengthy negotiations, a plot of land was available for the construction of an emergency church and a children's home. However, construction could not start due to the February uprising in 1934 . After the civil war, the property of the Kinderfreunde was confiscated and the home on the Ennsleite was made available to the city parish. As a result, the property was bought by the city parish and exchanged for the originally acquired one. Due to the confiscation of the children's home built by the workers, the relationship with them was now clouded. The Church has been accused of having enriched itself in the property of the labor movement.
After the annexation of Austria in 1938, the situation of the parish deteriorated. So the kindergarten was soon closed. On 14./15. In January 1939 the emergency church was looted by ten young National Socialists and then confiscated by the NSDAP and used as a HJ home .
After the end of the war, church services were held again in the building, but the church was not popular with the workers due to its history. Therefore, the building was finally returned to the original owners and the search for a reason resumed. Finally, in May 1958, negotiations on a plot of land on Arbeiterstrasse were concluded and preliminary designs for the construction of the parish hall were submitted. The Diocesan Council gave preference to the preliminary draft by Johann Georg Gsteu and Working Group 4 over that by Bruno Schwamberger.
The first groundbreaking for the building took place on September 14, 1959. Two years later the parish hall, rectory and youth home were completed and opened on October 14, 1961 and consecrated on December 10, 1961. The parish hall served as an emergency church for the next few years .
The second construction phase, the construction of the church and kindergarten, was then to begin at the end of 1966. After various plan changes and lengthy considerations, the decision was again made in favor of architects Johann Georg Gsteu and Working Group 4 from Vienna. The technical construction management was entrusted to the engineer Hugo Bruneder. In September 1968 the groundbreaking ceremony for the church took place.
In the first half of 1970 the construction of the church was largely completed, so that on June 7, 1970 the first Holy Mass could be celebrated in the new church. However, some furnishings were still missing, such as holy water containers and baptismal fonts as well as the tabernacle column . On September 20, the celebration of the placing of the cross on the bell bearer followed and on October 4, 1970, after a sermon by Prof. Dr. Engelbert Schwarzbauer will be consecrated by Diocesan Bishop Franz Salesius Zauner in the presence of the architects .
architecture
In this construction an X-support is the recurring load-bearing element. This absorbs both the vertical and horizontal forces that occur. The spatial structure is created from six of these supports in connection with a concrete frame. The internal force distribution is reproduced in the shape of the longitudinal beams, which are wider at the points where the supporting crosses are located.
The outer shell, originally planned entirely in Profilit glass, has no load-bearing function and, in the architectural concept, signals that the room delimitation can be changed over the medium or long term.
literature
- Community centers. In: Bauwelt. 49/1970. Bertelsmann, Berlin 1970. (has inter alia Pastoral Care Center Steyr-Ennsleite (Working Group 4, F. Kurrent, J. Spalt, and JG Gsteu, Vienna))
- Johann Georg Gsteu, Günter Rombold : The pastoral care center Steyr-Ennsleite. In: Christian art sheets . (1961) pp. 13-17.
- Austria is building. In: Building and Living. 9/1965.
- Conrad Lienhardt (Ed.): Sacred space in transition - church building in the Catholic Church in Upper Austria since 1948. Schnell & Steiner, 2004, ISBN 3-7954-1575-6 .
Web links
- Parish chronicle on the official website
- Entry in the nextroom architecture database
- Architecture in the 20th Century: Austria The “Construction” and the Awakening 1945–1975 by Friedrich Achleitner
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Chronicle of the parish, page 2, viewed on December 17, 2011 ( Memento of the original of April 21, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ↑ Chronicle of the parish, page 2, viewed on December 17, 2011 ( Memento of the original of April 21, 2005 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. .
- ↑ entry in the Next Room database, accessed 17 December 2011 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 2 ′ 5 " N , 14 ° 25 ′ 37" E