Schiedlberg Parish Church

Schiedlberg Parish Church (German: Pfarrkirche Mariä Verkündigung) is the Roman Catholic parish church of the village of Schiedlberg in Upper Austria, dedicated to the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

[3][4] Initially, a small wooden chapel was used[2] while the present church was being built between 1786 and 1790, as was the priest's house,[2] which until 1887 also served as a school.

[5] The necessary finances came partly from the Religionsfonds (the state fund established by Joseph II from the proceeds of his dissolution of monasteries), local landowners and the members of the parish itself.

[1] The small Neo-classical church building consists of a single nave of three bays with a vaulted ceiling and a recessed rectangular chancel terminating in a segmented arch, with an adjoining sacristy.

[1] The high altar with statues in the Rococo style and an altarpiece by the painter Franz Xaver Gürtler (1777) was transferred here in 1839 from the abandoned church of the Celestine nuns in Steyr.