Chiesa parrocchiale di Sant'Ulrico e dell'Epifania del Signore

Ortisei’s parish church of St. Ulrich and the Epiphany is a late Baroque building begun in 1793. Its onion-domed tower and works by members of the Moroder family link the church to the village’s religious and artistic history.

Why it matters

The church grew with Ortisei. Two side chapels, the Rosary Chapel and Sacred Heart Chapel, were added between 1905 and 1907 as the village expanded. The parish’s formal dedication is to the Epiphany of the Lord, alongside its association with St. Ulrich of Augsburg.

What to notice

The late Baroque structure has flat domes with longitudinal and transverse ribs, articulated wall pillars and an onion-domed campanile. Its works include a statue of St. Ulrich by Ludwig Moroder dl Mëune, an Adoration of the Magi by Josef Moroder-Lusenberg, and a sculptural group of St. Elizabeth with the beggar by Rudolf Moroder-Lenert, awarded a gold medal at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900.

Context and history

Construction of the single-nave church began in 1793. The growth of the village led to the addition of the two side chapels in the early twentieth century. In 1988, the nineteenth-century neo-Gothic nave was dismantled and replaced by an octagonal space. The parish’s liturgical life reflects Ortisei’s trilingual community, with celebrations in German, Italian and Ladin.