Spitalskaplaneikirche, Protected church in Schwarzach im Pongau, Austria.
The parish church of Schwarzach im Pongau, dedicated to the Immaculate Conception, is a single-nave Rococo building with a curved west front, a transept with rounded corners and a slightly recessed choir flanked by single-storey sacristies. Inside, two bays carry a barrel vault with transverse arches restored in 1983, pilaster strips and a continuous moulded cornice.
The Rococo church was built in 1736 to plans by Father Bernard Stuart and court building administrator Johann Kleber, and consecrated in 1741. It became a vicariate church in 1941. A fire in 1981 led to its rebuilding and a south-side extension in 1982/1983 to plans by architect Clemens Holzmeister.
The church is dedicated to the Immaculate Conception. Memorial stones inside commemorate Friedrich Prince of Schwarzenberg, Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg from 1836 to 1850, and Ambrosia Preisinger, remembered since 1879. The building has been a listed monument, and since 1941 a vicariate church.
The church stands in the northern part of Schwarzach im Pongau market town, in the St. Johann im Pongau district of Salzburg. Its west front curves outward toward the approach; the rounded corners of the transept and the lower sacristy annexes on the east side mark the building from outside. The interior was restored in 1972 and the barrel vault rebuilt in 1983.
The church was built in 1736 to plans by the monk Bernard Stuart and the court building administrator Johann Kleber, and was consecrated in 1741. After a fire in 1981 it was rebuilt and extended on the south side in 1982/1983 to designs by architect Clemens Holzmeister.
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