Kirche St Peter im Holz, Gothic parish church in Lendorf, Austria

The parish church of St. Peter in Holz is a medium-sized, Baroque-modified building of the 14th and 15th centuries. Its nave has double-stepped buttresses on the south side, a recessed choir closes in five-eighths, and a polygonal annex was added to the north around 1737. The tower in the northwest corner carries a pointed gable helm, wall slits and biforium sound windows.

The church stands on the site of the late antique city of Teurnia, where ruins of an early Christian bishop's church were excavated to the west. A church on the Holzer Berg was first documented again between 1060 and 1070 after re-Christianization. The present building is a baroquized structure of the 14th/15th century, with a north annex added around 1737.

The church is still the parish church of Lendorf, and its patron saint is commemorated in the high altar: the central panel painted by Peter Sedlmayr in 1699 shows Saint Peter. Late Gothic paintings uncovered in 1970 in the vault webs depict Saint Peter, the Mother of God, angels with the instruments of the Passion and flowering tendrils.

The church is accessible during regular parish services held throughout the year. A cemetery adjoins the building, making it easy to explore both spaces during a visit.

The large St Christopher fresco at the end of the 14th century was moved in 1950 from the tower to the north side of the choir. The west wall paintings were only uncovered in 1942, and the murals in the vault caps in 1970. A late Gothic shrine with a seated statue, made around 1500, is now in the Landesmuseum Klagenfurt.