Protestant school - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 1953 - 1.50 Shilling

The stamp image shows the Luther Bible opened with the title page. As a template for this motif served the academic painter Alfred Chmielowski, the creator of the draft, a preserved in the Vienna National Library copy of the first edition from 1534, which was printed by Hans Lufft in Wittenberg. The Luther Bible forms, so to speak, the spiritual and spiritual center of the Protestant school system. In Vienna, the Protestant estates founded during the reign of Ferdinand I a noble landscape school. Beside her, the evangelical school at Hernals, founded on the grounds of Freiherr von Jörger, gained some importance. The victory of the Counter-Reformation put an end to the Protestant school system in Austria everywhere. Only a new beginning was granted to the tolerance edict of Josef II in 1781. In Vienna, the Protestant school system made a new heyday possible. After the purchase of the church of the former royal monastery in the Dorotheergasse, today's Lutheran town church, approved by the emperor himself, the old tradition was resumed in the narrow rooms of the old monastery with a Protestant school.