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Presentation and publication on the history of the ”most run-down church of Austria“
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The Commemorative Volume on GoogleBooks
Registration at the Austrian National Library
Mention in Vienna History Wiki
A Ray of Sunshine in Times of the Pandemic
It had been a difficult time. Lots of energy drain, pep talk ruled. This description fits both the Covid pandemic and personal setback that had turned my life upside down. I was done writing books, was I?
The 200th anniversary of the erection and consecration of my local church offered a welcomed occasion to research and rewrite its more than 800-year history for a “commemorative volume” in a nice team effort! Archive research led to a reassessment of the parish foundation charter and provided answers to questions about the “lost statue” on the portico, further replicas of the Great Cross from St. Stephen’s Cathedral, the forgotten organ builder, the untraceable first altarpiece by the church painter Höfel, and much more.
The 120-page booklet with a foreword by the Cardinal of Vienna should be ready for the patronal feast day – lockdown reading matter for St. Nicholas Day. During an organ concert, I presented things to know and little anecdotes about the “most run-down church of Austria” – which it was, according to the Viennese Archbishop in 1816, until the new church was built and consecrated 200 years ago. Many committed people pulled together to make all of this possible. God bless them all!
These days, we talk a lot about the “3 G’s” – German for recovered, tested, or vaccinated (genesen, getestet oder geimpft). I guess, as important are the “3 G’s” blessed, healthy, and safe (gesegnet, gesund und geborgen).
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