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At the age of 73, a new task: clergyman comes to Tegernsee as parish vicar

2022-02-05T16:14:30.750Z


At the age of 73, a new task: clergyman comes to Tegernsee as parish vicar Created: 05.02.2022, 17:00 By: Gabi Werner Working closely together in the future: (from left) Stephan Fischbacher, head of the parish associations Gmund-Bad Wiessee and Waakirchen-Schaftlach, and the new parish vicar Jiri Tesar. © Thomas Plettenberg The pastoral team around Pastor Stephan Fischbacher is getting reinfor


At the age of 73, a new task: clergyman comes to Tegernsee as parish vicar

Created: 05.02.2022, 17:00

By: Gabi Werner

Working closely together in the future: (from left) Stephan Fischbacher, head of the parish associations Gmund-Bad Wiessee and Waakirchen-Schaftlach, and the new parish vicar Jiri Tesar.

© Thomas Plettenberg

The pastoral team around Pastor Stephan Fischbacher is getting reinforcements: Pastor Jiri Tesar will support the work with immediate effect.

At the age of 73 he moved from Sachsenkam to Tegernsee.

Bad Wiessee

– At an age when others have long since retired, the 73-year-old Jiri Tesar is once again taking on a new task: as parish vicar, the clergyman will support the pastoral care team of the Waakirchen-Schaftlach and Gmund-Bad Wiessee parish associations.

Tesar will live in the vicarage in Bad Wiessee as soon as the renovation work there is completed.

Pastor Stephan Fischbacher, who has been the head of both parish associations since September, is delighted with the new comrade-in-arms: "He exudes a great deal of motivation and commitment," he says of the future parish vicar.

New parish vicar was most recently active in Sachsenkam for 26 years

Jiri Tesar knows the region all too well.

For 26 years he was most recently the parish priest responsible for the Sachsenkam-Piesenkam parish.

Now, at 73, he wants to take things a little easier and is therefore making a change.

As parish vicar, the clergyman who was born in Moravia/Czech Republic steps down to the second row and supports the 40-year-old Fischbacher in his sphere of activity.

"Change doesn't hurt," says Tesar about his move.

"It keeps you fresh and healthy."

Jiri Tesar should move into the rectory in Wiesse by spring at the latest

The 73-year-old is already familiar with the Tegernsee valley from a few visits.

The Tegernsee reminds him a little of the Sea of ​​Galilee, says the priest.

"It's so beautifully situated." Tesar, who currently still lives in Sachsenkam and has to commute between the old and new places of work, hopes to be able to move to Bad Wiessee as soon as possible.

Rooms are available for him in the vicarage there, but necessary renovation work is still being carried out.

"The floors need to be sanded down and some windows replaced," reports Fischbacher.

By spring at the latest, he hopes, the new vicar will be able to move in.

Parish vicar will also take care of weddings, baptisms and funerals

Two more years, until his 75th birthday, Tesar will work in the two parish associations at Tegernsee.

First, he will hold church services everywhere so that the faithful can get to know him, says Fischbacher.

"He will certainly take over many weddings, baptisms and funerals," announces the head of the parish association.

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The pastoral care team, which looks after the two parish associations and thus around 8,700 Catholics, now has eight employees.

Who will take on which tasks and who will hold the services in the individual parishes, "we agree on this every week," explains Fischbacher.

The individual pastors certainly have their priorities.

"It is important that there are people everywhere who know their way around."

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Source: merkur

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