Pfarrkirche Obervellach, Parish church in Obervellach, Austria.

Pfarrkirche Obervellach is a stone building with three hall sections and pointed-arch windows that bring light into the interior. The choir displays elaborate star-ribbed vaulting, and an old cemetery wall encloses the grounds.

The first church on the site was the private church of the cleric Roudhari in "Velah", which passed to the Bishopric of Freising under Bishop Abraham (957–993); in 1072 it was called the "Freising Basilica". From the 12th century until 1786 it belonged to the Archbishopric of Salzburg, and in 1280 it was first named a parish church. The present building was begun around 1500 by the master mason Lorenz Rieder, whose name and the year 1514 appear in an inscription on the triumphal arch; the consecration was performed by Berthold Pürstinger, Bishop of Chiemsee, and an indulgence was issued to finance completion.

The name Obervellach derives from "Velah", the settlement named when the church passed to the Bishopric of Freising under Bishop Abraham (957–993). The parish is dedicated to Saint Martin of Tours. In the choir's net-ribbed vault, 21 trefoil medallions show busts of saints, and the triumphal arch carries six painted shields honouring Emperor Maximilian I and his wives Bianca Maria Sforza and Mary of Burgundy.

The church stands in the northern part of Obervellach, surrounded by a cemetery and a former defensive wall, so the approach leads past the churchyard. The south choir wall holds the Christophorus fresco uncovered in 1969, and the Gothic crypt lies beneath the eastern half of the choir, reached through a portal in the south choir wall. The 57-metre tower rises north of the choir.

The 57-metre tower began as a defensive structure: it has wall slits and three-part sound windows with tracery, and its seven storeys are divided by cornices. One bell was cast around 1425; another, cast by Jörg Gloppitscher, bears the inscription "1465 maisster jorg".