Stadtpfarrkirche

Stadtpfarrkirche Review

The city parish church was built early in the 16th century, and later received its baroque facade and 18th-century spire. Tintoretto's Assumption of the Virgin decorates the altar. Badly damaged in World War II, the stained-glass windows were replaced in 1953 by a Salzburg artist, Albert Birkle, who included portrayals of Hitler and Mussolini as malicious spectators at the scourging of Christ (left window behind the high altar, fourth panel from the bottom on the right). Across the street begins a narrow lane named after Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, the great architect of the Austrian baroque, who was born in one of the houses here in 1666.