Mariä Himmelfahrt, Schwaz, Catholic parish church in Schwaz, Austria

Mariä Himmelfahrt is a Gothic parish church in Schwaz whose west front carries a market clock made in 1502, set within a gable crowned by thirteen small towers standing for Christ and the Apostles. The nave has two main aisles and two side aisles, and the north tower rises between nave and choir.

The church was first documented in 1337 as Liebfrauenkirchen; after a fire it was restored, enlarged and consecrated in 1432. The present hall church was built from 1460 to 1478 by Hans and Gilg Mitterhofer, with a preliminary consecration on 6 March 1465. From 1490 Erasmus Grasser planned the four-aisled expansion with two choirs, needed after the silver mine drew thousands of new residents to Schwaz.

Until 1858 a wooden partition ran down the central aisle, separating the townspeople in the northern Bürgerschiffe from the miners of the Schwaz silver mine in the southern Knappenschiffe, each group with its own choir and jurisdiction. The nobility reached its own church loge from the neighbouring Palais Enzenberg via the Grafenbogen, a covered bridge over the Franz-Josef-Straße built in 1520.

The church stands amid the densely built old town, with the west front and its market clock facing the street; the Grafenbogen, a covered passage over Franz-Josef-Straße, linked the nobility's church box to the Palais Enzenberg. Inside, a wooden partition once separated townspeople from miners in the central aisle until 1858, so look for traces of that division between the Bürger and Knappen naves.

In the roof truss above the vaults, two large treadwheels survive from 1518; they were used to hoist building material. The roof itself carries 15,000 copper plates. The west facade's market clock, installed in 1502 and given a new movement by Wilhelm Götz in 1582, is framed by a cornice and surrounded by four coats of arms: Austria, Tyrol, Schwaz and the Tänzl mining family.