Pfarrkirche St. Peter und Paul, Parish church in Telfs, Austria.
The Pfarrkirche St. Peter und Paul in Telfs displays two distinct towers, with the Peter Tower in the west and the baroque Paul Tower in the east completed in 1901. The building combines Romanesque Revival architecture with baroque elements added over time.
The church was first mentioned in 1233 as ecclesia de Telpheri and suffered multiple destructions from fires in 1447, 1550, and 1552. Each event led to major rebuilding that shaped the building's current form.
The right side altar holds a late-18th-century processional figure of Saint Sebastian carved by the sculptor Urban Klieber. At Christmas a board crib by Josef Anton Puellacher, also from the late 18th century, is set up in the church. A bell cast by Johann Paul Schellener in 1740 is kept here.
The church stands on the Telfer cemetery grounds; the cemetery chapel to the painful Mother of God there was demolished in 1859 to make way for the new parish church. The main south facade with both towers faces the visitor, and the entrance between the two doors holds a square baptismal chapel set with glass windows and concrete crosses since 1962.
The high altar crucifix came from the Kalvarienberg at St. Moritzen; the church also keeps a bell cast in 1740 by Johann Paul Schellener. At Christmas a crib of painted boards by Josef Anton Puellacher, made around 1800, is set up inside.
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