St. Franziskus, Catholic church building in Saulgrub, Germany.
St. Franziskus is a Catholic church in Saulgrub, Bavaria, built in a single-nave layout with neo-Gothic architectural features. The building has a gabled roof, and inside there are several altars decorated with religious statues and ornamental details.
The church was built starting in 1858 and consecrated in 1860, replacing an older Holy Cross Chapel on the same site. Its construction coincided with a broader wave of religious building across the region during that period.
Saulgrub never had its own parish; the church was and remains a filial church of St. Martin in the Bad Kohlgrub parish association. The high altar holds a figure of St. Francis of Assisi, and in the altar's upper section stands St. Anthony of Padua. The left side altar carries a figure of Mary as Immaculata, the right one a Baroque crucifix.
The church stands north of Saulgrub's center, in the foothills of the Bavarian Alps at a noticeable elevation. It is open for regular Catholic services and easy to reach on foot from the village.
The high altar was moved flush against the windowless east wall of the choir in 1995/96, when the neo-Gothic altars were reinstalled after a simplified interim arrangement. Its former side passages were lost in the process, so the retable now closes the apse completely.
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