Pfarrkirche zur Heiligen Elisabeth

The Elisabeth Church in Campanif was first mentioned in a document on September 18, 1373; it initially was a branch of the parish of Hallein and from 1754 a curat branch of the parish of St. Jakob am Thurn. Since the end of the war in 1945, the establishment of an independent parish had been contemplated, as the pastoral area also included the prisoners of the Glasenbach camp and the 500 inhabitants of the Rainerkaserne.[1] In the course of the final establishment of the parish of Elsbethen in 1953, a rectory was also built. The church life over the past centuries is not only documented by the indulgence letters from the years 1443, 1452, and 1479 but also by the mass endowments, such as the one from 1449 by Ulrich of Fladnitz.

The source material clarifies that when the Elisabeth Church still belonged to the parish of Hallein or the vicariate of St. Jakob am Thurn, the lords of Goldenstein particularly set strong impulses for spiritual-religious life. They repeatedly made efforts to get a priest to Elsbethen to ensure the religious life for the villagers. They even succeeded in establishing a chaplaincy for the church.

In 2004, there were 2930 Catholics among 5117 inhabitants in the parish area of Elsbethen.[2] The relatively young parish mostly belongs to the deanery of Bergheim, although some areas also fall under the city deanery of Salzburg. The boundaries of the parish and the political municipality are not identical. From the municipality of Elsbethen, the districts of Glasenbach, Vorderfager, Ober- and Hinterwinkel are attributed to the Salzburg city parish office in Aigen. This situation can be traced back to an expansion of the municipality in 1938, during which the incorporated districts retained their parish affiliation.