Memorial Otto Neururer Götzens

In the parish church of Götzens there are many memories of Otto NEURURER, priest-martyr during the Second World War. His urn is incorporated into the altar.

There is also a frame with the following information text:
" In the high altar of this church, the ash of the blessed
OTTO NEURURER,
born on the 25th of March 1888 in Piller-Fliess, died on the 30th of May 1940, is resting, as a priest of Götzens and a martyr of his faith.

He was working in different villages in Tyrol as a calm and exemplary pastor. As a priest in Götzens he was arrested by the Gestapo in 1938 because he defended the holiness of the marriage with no consideration for the rulers. At first he was brought to the concentration
Camp of Dachau and after that to the one in Buchenwald. Under biggest personal danger he did in both concentration camps his priestly duties among the other prisoners. When he wanted to do his priestly duties with a supposedly candidate for a baptism, he was brought to
the dreaded bunker where he was tortured to a cruel death. As the concentration camp Buchenwald did not own any crematorium at that time, he was burnt in a public crematorium. They sent his ash to his home-village. That is the reason why you can find the ash now in a golden urn under the high altar of this church.

On the 24th of November 1996 he was beatified by the pope John Paul II in the Petersdom of Rome. He got the patron of the marriage and the priesthood because of his reference."

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