Pfarrkirche St. Nikolaus Wilfersdorf

Church

Description

Gothic components from the 1st half of the 15th century

  • 1590 the church and parts of the village burn down
  • 1591 Reconstruction under Anna Maria von Liechtenstein, née Ortenburg, mother of the first princes, Karl, Maximilian and Gundaker von Liechtenstein. Since then, the church has also been used as the family crypt of the Liechtensteins. Burial place of members of the Wilfersdorf family line, the only one that has survived to the present day: Wolfgang II 1536-1585, Gundaker 1580-1658 and his first wife Agnes (of East Frisia), Hartmann 1613-1686 and his wife Elisabeth Sidonia 1623-1688
  • 1742-1744 Baroque reconstruction of the church with the addition of the current altar area
  • Patronage church of the Princes of Liechtenstein until 1978
  • Last interior renovation - 2002

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