Minoritenkirche

Minoritenkirche is a Roman Catholic church in Linz, also known as the Landhauskirche. Its three-storey northern façade faces the street, with two entrances and a tower beside the presbytery. Inside, a bright Rococo space unfolds around a choir, six wall niches, and stucco marble altars.

Minorite friars established their monastery here in the thirteenth century. The first written record of their presence in Linz dates from 1236, while construction of the Gothic church probably began around 1278. Johann Matthias Krinner redesigned the building from 1751, giving the nave Rocaille stucco and the presbytery ceiling an Eye of God surrounded by rays, clouds, and angel heads. Bartolomeo Altomonte painted the Annunciation above the 1756 high altar, while Johann Martin Schmidt created the painting for the Cross Altar. The former monastery now houses the Upper Austrian provincial government, following its dissolution in 1785.

A 1767 pulpit carries symbols of the four Evangelists, alongside a Rococo Good Shepherd beneath a dove. The organ preserves an 1853 case and includes eighteenth-century parts, while the current instrument has twenty-seven stops. In the summer sacristy, eighteenth-century inlaid cabinets stand beside a red marble fountain from the seventeenth century.