Pfarrkirche Mariä Himmelfahrt, Parish church in Thaur, Austria.

The Pfarrkirche Mariä Himmelfahrt is a Gothic church featuring four bays, a transept, and a recessed choir covered by a barrel vault with lunettes. The interior displays a thoughtful spatial composition with artistic decoration and clear structural articulation.

A church at Thaur was documented in 1244. The church was consecrated in 1487 and the choir in 1497; the side altars in the transept were consecrated in 1770. The north tower was remodeled in 1617, and the south tower was removed in the 17th century. Johann Michael Umhauser gave the interior its Baroque form in 1766; from 1878 to 1880 the church was stripped of Baroque elements. Restorations followed in 1934, 1959 and 1986 under Pastor Paul Haider.

The ceiling frescoes painted by Franz Pernlochner between 1878 and 1880 include a scene of Saint Romedius with villagers of Thaur, the local patron shown alongside his community. Other panels depict the Assumption, Mary as dragon-slayer, Mary sheltering fighting warriors with her cloak, the Crucifixion and the Nativity, with prophets in the spandrels and sibyls in the lunettes.

The church functions as an active parish church with regular services and ceremonies for the community. Visitors should respect the operating hours and be considerate of worshippers during religious events.

The high altar holds a late-Gothic wooden Madonna and Child, reworked in Baroque style, made in Tyrol around 1500. Until 1650 it stood in the parish church of St. Jakob in Innsbruck. The side figures of Dominikus, Katharina von Siena, Peter and Paul are attributed to Johann Giner the Elder.