Parish Church of Längenfeld

The Längenfeld Roman Catholic parish church is located in the municipality of Längenfeld in the tztal in the state of Tyrol, near the major town of Oberlangenfeld.The deanery of Silz in the diocese of Innsbruck patronizes St. Catherine subordinate parish church.The church and the cemetery are both protected monuments.

The church was referenced in a scripture in 1303 and consecrated in 1352.Jakob von Tarrenz is said to have built the enlarged church construction in the late Gothic core around 1518.The extension and baroque restoration were finished in 1690.

The church tower on the north side of the choir was divided into three storeys by an architectural painting in 1820, and the bell floor includes two late Gothic acoustic windows with tracery on either side.Each gable features a pointed gable helmet and a two-lane tracery window, as well as keel-arched blind niches with coats of arms above.Sacristy extensions may be found on both sides of the tower.

The late Gothic nave was extended by two bays to seven bays in 1690, with baroque buttresses.The year 1518 and the trade mark LOE were inscribed on the southern late Gothic buttress.On the southern side of the nave, in the sixth bay, there is a light niche with the trade signs tongs and horseshoes.The robes were made with crossed circular bars at a covered up late Gothic entryway in the fifth bay.The late Gothic pointed-arched entryway on the west facade was built in 1518 and features a jamb of pear and branch sticks linked at the crown.The doorway in 1690 was surrounded by a stuccoed aedicular frame and featured a circular window with a blind niche above it.On the west front is a picture by Josef Anton Puellacher from the end of the 18th century depicting Saints Ursula, Catherine, and Barbara.The inside of the nave is decorated with baroque wall pillars and cornices.At the pulpit pillar, a late Gothic circular service may still be seen.A large, round-arched triumphal arch connects the two-bay choir, which is somewhat off-axis, to the nave.A circular barrel vault with pointed lunettes connects the choir and nave.The west gallery has a three-axis, two-bay groined ceiling with stucco bands from 1690 on the ridges. The vault paintings in the nave and choir were created by Josef Arnold in 1852, and they depict medallions, angels, the four continents in Eucharistic adoration, a conflict between the saints Catherine, the Beheading of Saint Catherine, and the Assumption of Saint Catherine.

The high altar was constructed circa 1800. The magnificence of St. Catherine is shown in Anton Franz Altmutter’s altarpiece.Johann Wörle painted the Assumption of Mary on the left altarpiece in 1767. On the right is Josef Arnold’s 1855 St. John Nepomuk altarpiece. In the mid-nineteenth century, the sculptor Franz Auer produced the figures of St. Oswald, St. Florian, two female saints, and the Holy Trinity in the excerpt.Kassian Götsch, a carpenter, erected the apostle altar in the nave in 1680. It comprises of three altarpieces.Josef Witwer sculpted the figures, while Josef Thenig painted the altarpiece Madonna between Peter and Paul.The pulpit, which has significant elaborate carving and shows the sculptures of the four evangelists on the pulpit basket, comes from the late 17th century. Around 1762, the sculptor Josef Anton Renn constructed a figure of St. John Nepomuk, and around 1852, the painter Josef Gabl created station pictures.

Franz Reinisch II built the organ in 1904 and Johann Pirchner refurbished it in 1995.