Chiesa parrocchiale di San Martino

The Parish Church of San Martino in Tschars stands above the village on the foundations of an earlier Romanesque church.

Why it matters

The church illustrates the layering of Alpine parish architecture, combining a sixteenth-century hall church with Romanesque foundations and an eighteenth-century Baroque interior.

What to notice

The four-bay nave and three-sided choir date to the early sixteenth century. A bell tower on the south side is crowned by a Baroque onion-dome spire, while the interior reflects an eighteenth-century refashioning.

Context and history

The present church was built in the first quarter of the sixteenth century over the foundations of a Romanesque predecessor. Its interior was altered in the third quarter of the eighteenth century. The church remains part of the parish of Tschars in the Diocese of Bozen-Brixen.