Pfarrkirche Oppenberg, Parish church with cemetery in Oppenberg, Rottenmann, Austria

The Pfarrkirche Oppenberg is a parish church standing on a hilltop above the Oppenberg area near Rottenmann in Austria. The building combines Romanesque stone walls with Gothic pointed arches, features a Baroque gallery with carved woodwork, and contains side chapels with statues and altars from different periods.

A church at Oppenberg is documented in the 13th century and was rebuilt in the 15th century, when wall pillars and a Gothic rib vault were inserted into the Romanesque core. From 1514 to 1785 it was incorporated into Rottenmann Abbey. The three-storey west tower carries a Baroque onion dome of around 1700.

The church is dedicated to the Nativity of Mary and belonged to the Rottenmann monastery from 1514 to 1785. The north chapel altar, made in the second half of the 18th century, shows a painted view of Oppenberg with the founding couple, and above them Saints Anne, Patritius and Leonhard. The side statues of Saints Dominic and Catherine of Siena date from 1677.

To visit the church, you need to get the key from the nearby inn. The innkeeper will provide it so you can enter and explore the building.

The south chapel altar, made around 1677, holds a late Gothic shrine group of the Adoration of the Magi carved around 1485/1490 by Erasmus Grasser, restored in 1966/1967. A Baroque baldachin and acanthus ornament from the late 17th century frame it, and the shrine's back shows a painted Man of Sorrows.