Christophoruskirche

Evangelical parish church of Bad Gastein

History:

• 1500-1550 - Bloom of gold mining in the Gastein Valley and with it the intrusion of Reformation ideas into the Gastein Valley
• 16th/17th century - Protestantism in the Gastein valley with occasional tolerance and oppression by the Salzburg archbishops
  
• 1615 - first expulsion of 629 Protestants from the Gastein valley
  
• 1731/32 - expulsion of the Protestants by prince archbishop Leopold Anton Freiherr von Firmian: 668 Protestants left the Gastein valley, 480 of whom found a new home in east Prussia

• 1781 - edict of toleration by Joseph II - in the Gastein valley, no one confesses a Protestant belief
  
• Starting in 1864 there were Protestant church services during the spa season in the summer for Protestant spa guests in Bad Gastein
  
• 1868 - 1872 - construction of the "Christophoruskapelle" under the patronage of Kaiser Wilhelm I of Prussia in Bad Gastein
  
• June 25, 1960 - consecration of the "Heilskirche" (Church of our Savior) and bestowal of the status of an independent parish in Gastein
  

SERVICES OF GOD:

Every 1st and 3rd Sunday of the month in Bad Gastein at 10.00 am

Every 2nd and 4th Sunday of the month in Bad Hofgastein at 10.00 am