Pastoral care center Lichtenberg
The pastoral care center Lichtenberg is located in the municipality of Lichtenberg in the Urfahr-Umgebung district in Upper Austria . The Roman Catholic Pastoral Care Center St. Francis de Sales is a subsidiary of Linz Pöstlingberg church in the deanery Linz-North of the Diocese of Linz .
history
After the parish center, built in 1967, turned out to be too small and in need of major renovation, a new building was initiated at the celebration of 40 years of the Lichtenberg Pastoral Care Center with former Bishop Maximilian Aichern . The new building began in August 2009 and on December 12, 2010 the pastoral care center was consecrated by Diocesan Bishop Ludwig Schwarz . The light with reference to the place name Lichtenberg and the story of creation became the leitmotif of the planning with the artist Siegrun Appelt and the architect Andrea Konzett based on the designs of the cathedral master builder and responsible building consultant of the diocese of Linz, architect Wolfgang Schaffer and collaboration with architect Alfred Sturm for the implementation planning. At the same time, the team of architects Two in a Box Christian Stummer and Andreas Fiereder developed a master plan for the center of Liechtenberg, with which the municipal office and the pastoral care center can orient themselves to a generously dimensioned village square.
Pastoral care center
The pastoral care center is located directly on the main road and is dominated by the edge of a slope. The architecture combines group rooms, an office and a parish hall as an event center with a liturgical celebration room. With mobile partition walls, parts of the room can be switched on depending on their use. The hillside location enables barrier-free access to the main rooms on the upper and lower floors. The parish office, the group rooms and the infrastructure rooms are located in the basement. The visitors enter the pastoral care center via a spacious covered front zone and an equally spacious foyer. In the round celebration room, a light slot design by Siegrun Appelt and Andrea Konzett provides natural light with twelve windows - which are in different orientations. The seasonal and daily positions of the sun can be seen in the church interior in an east-west orientation. With the twelve slits of light there are also twelve columns that can be understood as the Twelve Apostles. At night, artificial light is used to bring light to the outside via the light slots and the church of Lichtenberg appears from the outside, taking up the place name Lichtenberg, as “light on the mountain”. A devotional chapel, a discussion room and a sacristy are connected to the church. The rectangular parish hall can be connected to the church interior for large liturgical celebrations by means of circular wall sliding elements. The parish hall can also be varied in size. The basement is made of reinforced concrete, whereby the reinforced concrete frame is also the foundation for the bell cage on the upper floor. The upper floor was built using a large timber frame construction. The color white dominates both outside and inside. The floor in the foyer is a polished concrete floor. The floor in the church, in the parish hall and in the meditation room, which is located in the basement, was made of sawn silver fir from Vorarlberg and, along with white walls and ceilings, gives the rooms a warm feeling of space.
Facility
The liturgical places were designed by Siegrun Appelt and Andrea Konzett with the assistance of the theologian Christoph Freilinger. The wood of the silver fir from the Bregenz Forest was chosen as the material . The altar is a monolith made of four carpentry mortised fir blocks and stands in the middle of the room. The baptismal font is a wooden monolith with a brass bowl. The polished brass tabernacle stands on a wooden block. Brass is also the material of the lecture cross and the candlesticks. A wooden figure of Christ from 1700 and an unknown artist from the old parsonage was tied into a free-standing brass stand and is perceived as floating and symbolically embraces the entire liturgical space. The organ with four registers, built in 1983 by the Upper Austrian Orgelbauanstalt St. Florian for the old parish hall, was located in the north-east of the church. The three bells were designed by the sculptor Judith P. Fischer in 2011 . The largest bell, the Bell of Creation, names the preservation of creation and shows St. Francis of Assisi . The middle bell, the bell of justice , is called St. Elisabeth of Thuringia and shows that she found roses instead of bread in the basket . The little bell, the bell of peace , calls St. Benedict of Nursia and shows the olive branch, leaf, fruit and core of the olive tree as a symbol of peace.
literature
- Lichtenberg. Roman Catholic Pastoral Care Center. Architect Wolfgang Schaffer and architect Alfred Sturm. 1999-2011. Pp. 206-211. In: Constantin Gegenhuber: Built prayers. Christian sacred architecture. New buildings in Austria 1990–2011. Art guide, Verlag Anton Pustet, Salzburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-7025-0632-2 .
- Pastoral care center Lichtenberg St. Francis de Sales . Pp. 56-57. In: Christoph Freilinger, Martina Gelsinger: Churches in Linz. Art guide, Dean's Office of the Linz Region in cooperation with the Art Department of the Diocese of Linz, Linz 2009.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 40 years of pastoral care in Lichtenberg ( Memento of the original from October 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. dioezese-linz.at (fk), February 11, 2008
- ↑ Monika Leisch-Kiesl: A light room on the Lichtenberg. Lichtenberg parish gazette
- ^ Festschrift Seelsorgezentrum Lichtenberg (PDF) Lichtenberg Church, Catholic Church Upper Austria. Retrieved on February 27, 2017. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Lichtenberg: Three new bells with a ringing message . Retrieved on February 27, 2017. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
