Memorial Plaque for Andreas Rieser

The commemorative plaque installed in 2013 at the church remembers the village priest Andreas Rieser, who was born on July 1, 1908, in Dorfgastein as the son of Josef and Theresia, born Herzog. Andreas Rieser already held an anti-national socialist stance during the early 1930s. During renovation works on the Dorfgasteiner church in 1938, Rieser was entrusted with placing a memorial text in the renovated church tower; however, the document was opened by the responsible spenglermeister and handed over to the NS local group due to its regime-critical content. Andreas Rieser was subsequently arrested in the summer of 1938 and deported to the concentration camp Dachau. Rieser remained interned throughout the entire NS period and survived. Therefore, the former church square was renamed Andreas-Rieser-Platz.