Parish church Roitham am Traunfall

Catholic parish church hl. James the Elder in Roitham

The Roman Catholic parish church Roitham am Traunfall is located in the municipality of Roitham am Traunfall in the Gmunden district in Upper Austria . It is consecrated to St. James and belongs to the Deanery Gmunden in the Diocese of Linz . The building is a listed building .

history

The church is first mentioned in a document in 1350.

Church building

Church exterior

The church is a late Gothic building with a west tower with a neo-Gothic pointed helmet. A vestibule with a ribbed vault protects the profiled, late Gothic south portal.

Church interior

The single-nave nave has three bays, also with ribbed vaults. The three-bay choir, also with a ribbed vault, is set apart. It ends with a 5/8 close. The four-axis gallery on the west side is supported by a ribbed vault. It is partially covered by a baroque porch. A late Gothic sacristy door leads into the sacristy with a late Baroque ribbed vault.

Furnishing

The richly designed high altar was built in 1723. The altarpiece was made by Carl Strasser in 1720. The side altars are neo-baroque , the pulpit neo-Gothic .

literature

• DEHIO manual. The art monuments of Austria: Upper Austria. Roitham. Parish church hl. James. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1977, 6th edition, p. 260.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Upper Austria - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento of June 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 26, 2015 (PDF).

Coordinates: 48 ° 1 ′ 28.2 ″  N , 13 ° 49 ′ 16 ″  E