The Wels-Herz-Jesu parish within the Neustadt is celebrating its one hundredth birthday. The church with its two 73.5-meter-high church towers within the neighborhood of the hospital is the most important church in Wels and an anchor for five,600 Catholics within the Wels Neustadt, but additionally for a lot of hospital sufferers and their kin.
The anniversary shall be celebrated appropriately on the weekend of June seventh to ninth. The celebrations will kick off on Friday with the “Lengthy Evening of the Church”, which begins at 6 p.m. The Bach Choir will carry out works by Anton Bruckner, and the exhibition “100 Years of the Sacred Coronary heart” shall be opened, the place guests will be taught thrilling info in regards to the historical past of the Wels Neustadt and the parish. The initiator of the church constructing was the city pastor Josef Flotzinger. The muse stone was laid in 1905 with Archduchess Marie Valerie – the inspiration stone comes from the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem – and the church was consecrated on June twenty fifth, 1911. On New Yr’s Eve 1924, the then bishop signed the founding decree of the Sacred Coronary heart parish.
On Saturday, church excursions could be attended at 10 a.m. and a pair of p.m., and this system for younger folks begins at 5 p.m. with an “escape room” within the church, adopted by tenting and a campfire on the sports activities subject.
On Sunday the pageant mass will happen at 9.30 a.m., adopted by a parish pageant with a kids’s program, tombola and the Krenglbach brass band.
