St. Paul (Augsburg)
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St. Paul is an Evangelical Lutheran parish in the Bavarian city of Augsburg . It is located in the Pfersee district .
history
Until the beginning of the 19th century, the village of Pfersee belonged to the margraviate of Burgau (Upper Austria). Therefore, evangelical Christians were forbidden to live here, as they were suspected of spying for hostile powers. Only after Pfersee came to Bavaria was this ban lifted. In the middle of the 19th century, for the first time, around 30 Protestant Christians lived in Pfersee. With the beginning of industrialization and the settlement of spinning mills and weaving mills, the number of Evangelicals who looked for and found work here rose by leaps and bounds. Around 1880, 550 Protestants lived in Pfersee, around the turn of the century around 1000 and around the time of the First World War finally in 2000. Since 1870, Protestant services have been celebrated in various taverns in Pfersee. In 1885 the first Protestant deaconess came to Pfersee. Together with her fellow sisters, she cared for people who were in need. The parish nurses visited the sick, helped the widows, and provided families with food, clothing and many a mark. And she and her successor had their hands full, because the poverty in the working-class neighborhoods was unimaginable.
The house of prayer
In 1888 the building of the house of prayer began . On January 19, 1888, a piece of land in Jakobine-Lauber-Strasse was bought for the sum of 1530 marks. As early as on Christmas Day 1888, the congregation was able to celebrate the first service in its new prayer room. In 1903 the prayer house was extended to the north, in 1910 the extension to the south took place. The most important task that the deaconesses fulfilled in the house of prayer was taking care of the children of the workers. They started with 100 children in 1888 and looked after 385 children during the First World War. In addition, the prayer house offered the working class families a place where they could meet, talk to each other and celebrate church services together. For a while, it even housed an old people's home where older women could spend their retirement years.
Construction of the Church of St. Paul
After plans for the construction of a Protestant church were made for the first time as early as 1923, which, however, had been discarded due to the uncertain times, the planning of the Church of St. Paul began in the 1960s. On October 8, 1957, the Evang.-Luth. General church administration bought a site for building a church in the immediate vicinity of the old Catholic church of St. Michael von Pfersee. In 1959 Gustav Gsaenger , an architect from Munich, took over the planning and construction management. Construction began in July 1962 and the foundation stone was laid on November 17, 1962. At the end of 1962, five bells were ordered from the Erdinger bell foundry in Czudnochowski. Hebauf could be celebrated on November 8, 1963, and the new St. Paul Church was consecrated on June 14, 1964.
Use of the house of prayer
After the church was built, the former prayer room lost its function as a worship service. In June 1974 the St. Paul Protestant day care center moved into its newly built building at Uhlandstrasse 2. In 1977 the last deaconess left the Bethaus-Pfersee ward. Today the Klaucke Foundation for unaccompanied minor refugees is housed in the former prayer room. The Pfersee-Kriegshaber Protestant Welfare Station has its offices in the middle part and the community rooms are in the southern part.
literature
- Wolfram Lohse: 100 years of the St. Paul prayer house in Pfersee. 1988.
- Festschrift for the consecration of the Protestant St. Paul Church in Augsburg. 1964.
- Horst Jesse: The history of the Evangelical Church in Augsburg. Ludwig, Pfaffenhofen 1983, ISBN 3-7787-2054-6 , pp. 409, 434f.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 21 '43.4 " N , 10 ° 52' 4.7" E