St. Johann Nepomuk (Winkl)

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St. Johann Nepomuk

The church of St. Johann Nepomuk was built from 1961 to 1963 and is the parish church of Winkl , a district of the municipality of Bischofswiesen . It belongs to the parish of St. Johann Nepomuk Winkl and thus to the Roman Catholic parish association Stiftsland Berchtesgaden in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising .

history

For centuries the Gnotschaft Winkl comprised only a few rural properties. Whose inhabitants had a neighboring parish in Austrian Großgmain connected to them (only) in 1926 the completion of the Parish Church of the Sacred Heart in Strub a closer way to church allowed. In Pflanzgarten Winkl the "had during the war years Organization Todt " barracks for labor camps created, whose occupants in the hill opposite of today's federal highway for the construction of tunnels and bunkers forced were. After the end of the Second World War , more refugees and displaced persons were housed in Winkl than in Strub . From 1946 onwards, the American occupation forces had the majority of the expellees who had been expelled from the Berchtesgadener Land resettled to the barracks in Winkl, so that until 1949 over 2000 displaced persons lived in the former labor camp. Chaplain Walther Gruber, who had previously visited the displaced persons in the camps in Dürreck in Schönau am Königssee , Antenberg in Obersalzberg , Anzenbach , Oberau and Strub, held services in one of the Winkler barracks whenever and wherever possible. But for the even relatively young parish Herz Jesu Bischofswiesen , this increase in parish members to be looked after represented an ever greater burden. Thus, the establishment of a separate parish for this pastoral care area became more and more urgent.

After the government building officer Clemens Böhm from Bad Reichenhall had made the plans for the church building, the foundation stone was laid on July 23, 1961. But shortly afterwards there was a delay in construction, which was connected with the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council , according to which in future for a high altar was no longer required to build a church . As a result, the plans for the apse area were changed and a large altar by the Berchtesgaden artist Hans Richter was moved into the center. The end of the apse was formed by a 13-meter-high window picture created by Ludwig Demeter from Bad Reichenhall. On July 14, 1963, Auxiliary Bishop Johannes Neuhäusler inaugurated the Winkler Church under the patronage of Johannes Nepomuk , who, like most of the expellees, came from Bohemia and, as the saint of the bridge, was supposed to build a bridge from the old to the new home.

A little later, on March 1, 1964, a parish curate was established and finally, on June 1, 1967, the elevation to the parish of St. Johann Nepomuk Winkl .

Parish

The parish church St. Johann Nepomuk in Winkl belonged from 2000 together with the parish church Herz Jesu in the Gnotschaft Bischofswiesen, the pilgrimage church Maria Hilf in Loipl and the parish church St. Michael in Strub to the Roman-Catholic parish association Bischofswiesen . On June 1, 2019, this parish association was transferred to the parish association Stiftsland Berchtesgaden , which has since included almost all Roman Catholic parishes in the Berchtesgadener Land .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b St. Johann Nepomuk - Parish Church , online at erzbistum-muenchen.de
  2. ↑ a b c St. Michael - Parish , online at erzbistum-muenchen.de
  3. ↑ Stiftsland Berchtesgaden - former parish association Bischofswiesen , online at erzbistum-muenchen.de
  4. ↑ Stiftsland Berchtesgaden , parish association structure appears after clicking on “Pfarrverband”, online at stiftsland.de .

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Coordinates: 47 ° 39 '55.4 "  N , 12 ° 57' 11.8"  E