Parish church Unterlaussa

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Catholic parish church Our Lady on Mount Karmel in Unterlaussa
Interior view towards the high altar

The Unterlaussa parish church is located in Unterlaussa in the market town of Weyer in the Steyr-Land district in Upper Austria . The Roman Catholic parish church , consecrated to Our Lady on Mount Carmel , belongs to the Admont deanery in the Graz-Seckau diocese . It is the only church in Upper Austria that belongs to the Graz-Seckau diocese. The church is a listed building ( list entry ).

history

Already in 1790 there are indications of the existence of a small church in Unterlaussa. In 1872 a chapel was consecrated, which stood about 50 meters upstream from today's church. The current church was built in the neo-Gothic style between 1906 and 1908. Originally a branch of St. Gallen, Unterlaussa was raised to an independent parish in 1966. She is looked after by the Admont Abbey .

Description, equipment and furnishings

The small church is a neo-Gothic hall church . The interior is originally from 1915, but was fundamentally redesigned in the 1970s. In 2002 the outside of the church was renovated and redesigned. In 2006 a fundamental interior renovation followed, during which the neo-Gothic high altar from the Heiligenkreuz Abbey, created in 1862 by Josef Angeler and Josef Richter , was installed. The cemetery was laid out in 1947 and the rectory was built in 1965.

The paintings inside the church are by Friedrich Walzer . The church windows were made in the Tyrolean glass painting and mosaic institute in Innsbruck.

The ringing consists of four bells.

Web links

Commons : Kirche Unterlaussa  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Church window Unterlaussa

Coordinates: 47 ° 43 ′ 5 "  N , 14 ° 33 ′ 51.7"  E