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100 years in upheaval

2022-03-01T10:14:29.780Z


100 years in upheaval Created: 03/01/2022, 11:02 am By: Andrea Graepel The stone plaque with the names of the first Herrschingen pastors hangs on the outside of the Nikolauskirche. © Andrea Jaksch In May it will be 100 years since Herrsching became an independent parish. In the historical booklet of the former Herrschinger cultural advisor Gustl Empfenzeder, he reports on the way there. The Am


100 years in upheaval

Created: 03/01/2022, 11:02 am

By: Andrea Graepel

The stone plaque with the names of the first Herrschingen pastors hangs on the outside of the Nikolauskirche.

© Andrea Jaksch

In May it will be 100 years since Herrsching became an independent parish.

In the historical booklet of the former Herrschinger cultural advisor Gustl Empfenzeder, he reports on the way there.

The Ammersee-Ost parish community is planning an exhibition with pictures and anecdotes for the anniversary.

Herrsching -

As long as there was no school of its own, only a few services were celebrated in Herrsching - 100 years ago no more than a small farming village.

The "Altinger chaplains" from the parish of Oberalting and the priests from Andechs fought for pastoral care.

In the end, the people of Seefeld had to put up with a two-hour walk if, for example, they wanted to visit a sick person in the village of Ramsee between Andechs and Wartaweil, which has now disappeared.

The path was particularly lively on Sundays - from the chaplains who were to hold the services in Herrsching and the children who attended the Sunday school in Oberalting.

As early as 1831, the people of Herrsching tried to set up an independent parish, leaving land and money to the church.

But the church didn't give in until 1919, when it bought the old vicarage on Bahnhofstrasse, just across from the town hall.

It would take three more years to become self-employed.

This was only approved in February 1922, officially on May 30, 1922.

The Oberaltinger pastors took over, the Herrschinger was looked after by Alois Fürst at the time.

However, the Sunday marches to Herrsching were undertaken by Johann v.

G. Zedelmayer, then chaplain.

In 1922 he became Herrsching's first pastor and moved into the parsonage on Bahnhofstrasse, which had previously been the residence of a retired pastor.

Zedelmayer died in 1933. He was followed in 1934 by Pastor Karl Bader, who also stayed for eleven years.

Many people in Herrschingen know the name of the third pastor: Dean Geistlicher Rat Johann Wenzl.

He was the first pastor after the war. Herrsching had just 1,300 inhabitants at the time.

Gustl Empfenzeder writes about years of religious awakening.

A monument to Wenzl's Herrschinger work, however, is the restoration of the Martinskirche, which Herrsching's leading pastor Simon Rapp currently has to deal with again (we reported).

Wenzl was rooted in Herrsching and became part of Herrsching - he only left the Ammersee parish in 1972. "At the beginning of Pastor Wenzl, with a fat allocation of 75 grams per week and 1300 Catholic residents, the pews were full," writes Empfenzeder.

When Hans Rottach succeeded Wenzl almost 30 years later, "we have overweight and prosperous half-empty pews." The pastoral task has nevertheless become more difficult, Herrsching now had 3,400 Catholics, also thanks to the connection to the railway line in the 1970s.

Rottach remained connected to Herrsching until his death, but was replaced in 2002 for health reasons by Pastor Bernhard von Rohrscheidt, who only stayed one year.

Ulrich Lindl filled this gap in 2004 – for four years.

His successor, Franz Schmid, fought for the preservation of the Catholic parish center on Mitterweg and for a new home for the rectory, which was temporarily housed in the parish center on Mitterweg.

The Höllrieglhaus, into which the vicarage then moved, was bought from the outset as a replacement for the old vicarage on Bahnhofstrasse.

Since 2015, Simon Rapp has been the senior pastor of the parish community (PG) Herrsching-Widdersberg-Breitbrunn, which was expanded in 2016 to become the PG Ammersee-Ost.

For a long time now, a pastor has not only been a pastor, but also a manager in times when the Catholic Church is experiencing truly turbulent times and Rapp would certainly be happy about the “half-empty pews” that Empfenzeder once wrote about.

Source: merkur

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