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The Church of the Good Shepherd is a church building belonging to the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Berchtesgaden , alongside Christ Church in Berchtesgaden as its main church and other church buildings in Bischofswiesen and Schönau am Königssee . The parish belongs to the Traunstein Deanery within the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria . Given the relatively small percentage of its members within the aforementioned municipalities of the Berchtesgadener Land district, it exists in the minority situation of a diaspora.The church was built according to plans by the Munich architect Gustav Gsaenger on land acquired from the responsible forestry office in the area of ​​the historic Schwarzeck district in Ramsau near Berchtesgaden. Following the laying of the foundation stone on November 10, 1957, by Dean Kelber (Traunstein), the topping-out ceremony took place on December 21, 1957, and on July 27, 1958, the "Church of the Good Shepherd" was consecrated by Senior Church Councilor Arnold Schabert.