Reutte Friary, Franciscan monastery in Reutte, Austria

Reutte Friary is a former Franciscan friary in Reutte, its church integrated into the conventual buildings. The Gothic choir sits under a Baroque nave with a hip roof, and the south tower, partly set into the friary wing, carries an onion dome restored in 1981. The nave has five bays and a double west gallery.

The foundation began on March 15, 1628, with a ceremony attended by Archduke Leopold of Austria and Claudia de' Medici. Swedish soldiers looted and damaged it in July 1632 during the Thirty Years' War, triggering major reconstruction work.

The friary closed on 1 September 2014, when only three priests and a lay brother remained; the church continues as a parish vicariate church under the patronage of St Anna. Since 1991 a carved-board Christmas crib made around 1738 by Franz Michael Hueber has been set up annually; it shows a fourth king who arrived late after performing works of mercy. The Easter tomb built in 1848 by Anton Köpfle and Josef Schweighofer is displayed again at Easter since 2004.

The former friary stands in Reutte town centre, about 100 km west of Innsbruck, with the church parallel to the street and the tower on the south side of the Gothic choir. The monastic community closed on 1 September 2014, so the church now serves as the parish vicariate church of St Anna; look for the onion dome, restored only in 1981.

The church interior was cleared of its furnishings during a restoration between 1964 and 1967. Since then the choir has ended not in a high altar but in Jörg Lederer's Anna selbdritt group, carved around 1515, framed by a radiant ring made in the 1960s. The five bells were all cast in 1948 by Franz Oberascher of Salzburg.