Johanneskirche

Johanneskirche (Evangelical Church of St. John) is located on the Lend Canal, west of the Carinthia regional seat of Klagenfurt am Wörthersee.In 1864, the autonomous parish of Klagenfurt was established. Today, the territory encompasses the western part of the provincial capital of Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, west of Bahnhofstrasse, and stretches south to the Loibl Pass and west to Maria Wörth.The current membership figure is around 4370.

The architect Anton Bierbaum designed the north-facing neo-Gothic church building with a low recessed chancel and a southern polygonal facade tower with a pointed helmet, which was completed between 1864 and 1866.Buttresses and tracery windows adorn the façade.The nave and chancel include wall paintings from the time of building, and the open roof truss is colored.A wooden gallery on two supports with a straight parapet is present.

The neo-Gothic altar from the construction time was significantly renovated in 1967 by restorer Lukas Arnold the Elder, who also added a cross.This crucifix was carefully removed on Holy Saturday, 2009, by church restorer Lukas Arnold the Younger.In 2009 and 2010, the chancel was renovated in two stages.Since Christmas 2009, a glass work of art created by Carinthian artist Valentin Oman in collaboration with the Sanktmauritius glass studio has served as the new altarpiece.In June 2010, a new altar table was installed in the apse.On June 20, 2010, the facelift was officially unveiled at the neighborhood festival.

Albert Samassa cast three bells in Ljubljana in 1866.The smallest (85 cm in diameter and 375 kg) continues to ring today.Around August 1916, the middle (570 kg) and large (1130 kg) were seized for use as war metal.A second bell was purchased in 1926 to remember those who died in the war; it was taken in 1940 and melted down during WWII.Only two new bells were added to the ringing in 2006, in the belief that there would never be another conflict.The Perner business casts them in Schärding.The smallest has a diameter of 77 cm and a weight of 280 kg, while the largest has a diameter of 102 cm and a weight of 650 kg.On October 31, 2006, they ring the bell for the first time as a couple.

Gerhard Schmid (Kaufbeuren) built a new organ in the existing neo-Gothic organ case in 1987.It replaces a 1925 pneumatic cone chest instrument with 16 stops on two manuals and a pedal.On three manuals and the pedal, the Schmid organ has 30 registers (1764 pipes).The old organ work’s nine registers were reused.Mechanical motions are used in the slider chest device.Toma Monik, a Slovenian organ builder, totally rebuilt the organ in 2014/5.