Pfarrkirche Waidring, building in Waidring, Austria

Pfarrkirche Waidring is a baroque church from the 18th century in the center of the town, featuring white walls, small round windows, and a characteristic onion-shaped dome on its tower. Inside, the space opens up with a vaulted ceiling, elaborate wall paintings from 1761 depicting biblical scenes, stucco decorations, and a main altar of fine stone with images of Saints Vitus and Nikolaus.

A church was documented here in 1381 as a filial of Kirchdorf in Tirol. From 1480 to 1504 a late Gothic building was erected to plans by Matthäus Koppolt. The baroque replacement was built from 1757 to 1760 by Kassian Singer, completed by Andreas Hueber, and consecrated on 15 August 1764 by Chiemsee bishop Franz Carl von Trauchburg. It became a parish church in 1891.

The double patronage of Saints Vitus and Nicholas of Myra is shown on the high altarpiece, a late-17th-century painting of the two saints before the Madonna. The side altars carry figures of Saints Anne and Joachim, carved by Thomas Blieml around 1800. A late-Gothic Madonna from the mid-15th century hangs on the north wall of the nave.

The church stands in the middle of Waidring, ringed by its cemetery, with the west portal facing the village. The red marble frame of the main portal carries the chronogram 1759. The interior is lit by daylight through round-arched windows, so the ceiling paintings by Perwäger and Mader read best on a bright morning.

The 1991 excavations inside the church uncovered evidence of burials from the 8th century and a transverse foundation from around 1200, showing that the site was used long before the 1381 church was documented. The baroque building of 1757–1760 therefore stands on ground with earlier Christian activity.