Prandtauerkirche, Roman Catholic church in St. Pölten, Austria

The Prandtauerkirche is a baroque church in St. Pölten with a distinctive curved eastern facade. The building dominates Rathausplatz and displays typical baroque design with ornate facade details.

A princess from the Montecuccoli family commissioned the building in 1707 along with a Carmelite monastery. Construction took over a decade to finish in the 1720s.

The church is dedicated to Our Lady of Mount Carmel, not named after Prandtauer, who only directed construction. Inside, look for the neo-baroque pulpit with figures of the evangelists and apostles by M. Reitstätter-Bolldorf and Adolf Treberer-Treberpurg (1949), and four baroque apostle paintings of Peter, Judas Thaddäus, Paulus and Matthäus.

The building sits centrally on Rathausplatz and is easy to reach on foot. Visitors should know that services happen at set times and the interior may not be open for visits during those hours.

The coffin of the founder, Princess Maria Antonia von Montecuccoli, was returned to the church in 2017 from the Walpersdorf castle chapel and placed in a side niche right behind the main entrance, behind a newly forged wrought-iron grille. She had been buried in the crypt in 1738.