Lorenzi church

St. Georgen am Kreischberg

In the middle of the town of St. Lorenzen am Kreischberg there is a Gothic feature of the upper Mur Valley and the Upper Carinthian area. In "Larentzen pey der Mur" you can visit the church of St. Lawrence with a painted wooden ceiling.

This attractive little church building with a Romanesque core and further expansion in the 17th and 18th centuries, stenciled wooden beam ceiling, is very similar to the neighboring church of St. Cäcilia. The baroque high altar with the Gothic figure of St. Larentius in the center is an example of the harmonious fusion of the two extremely different style epochs of Gothic and Baroque.

As a curiosity made of wood, the oldest confessional in the Alpine region, dated 1607, is a simple carpentry work with pyrography and inscription. The confessor, who is given very little space, kneels in the opposite direction to the confessor, an illustration of the Catholic hierarchy.