Krenglbach Parish Church

The parish church of Krenglbach stands in the village of Krenglbach in Upper Austria’s Wels-Land district. It is dedicated to Saint Stephen and protected as a listed monument. The present building replaces an earlier church first recorded in 985.

The late 18th-century late-baroque nave was given a full interior redesign in 2011. Its tall medieval tower still wears a baroque onion dome. Inside, a flat ceiling covers the nave while a two-bay choir with a straight end carries a ribbed cross vault.

The fittings are neo-baroque. On the west gallery hangs a copy after Anthony van Dyck’s ‘Lamentation of Christ’. A high-quality copy of the ‘Annunciation’, linked to Jacob Jordaens, hangs in the nave. The 1613 font shows the Baptism of Christ in carved relief. In the sacristy a baroque crib from the early 1700s sits behind an elaborate glass shrine.