Martinskirche
Martinskirche stands in central Linz as a Roman Catholic parish church and protected historic monument. Romanesque walls, Gothic details and an unfinished cloverleaf-shaped plan reveal centuries of architectural change.
The earliest known written mention dates to 799, while archaeological excavations in 1978 uncovered an older Carolingian central structure. A fifteenth-century Gothic rebuilding followed earlier alterations, and the west wall was reconstructed in 1589 with a new portal. During Linz’s wartime upheavals, the church served as a horse stable in 1742 and later as a military depot from 1810 to 1832. Today, fourteenth- and fifteenth-century frescoes, third-century Roman gravestones with inscriptions and Gothic wooden sculptures bring those layers inside.
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