Dreifaltigkeitskirche

The Paurachurch

Built 1714-1717 by Johann M. Prunner from Linz, based on an idea by Lambach Abbot Maximilian Pagl; artistic decoration 1718-1725.

The reason for the construction of the church was the plague of 1713, during which Pagl had vowed the church. The abbot wanted a place of worship that would symbolise the One and Triune God in its layout and artistic decoration. The circle and the equilateral triangle surrounding it are the symbols through which the builder expressed his grandiose idea already in the ground plan of the church: the circle as a symbol of the one, ...