Crypt in St Martin's Church

War Memorial

St. Martin's Church was secularised at the end of the 18th century by order of Emperor Joseph II and its tower was demolished. However, a late Gothic crypt can be visited, which the first chaplain of St Martin's had built for himself and his descendants from his own funds.

The star-ribbed vault of the three-aisled hall is supported by four massive, octagonal columns. After the Second World War, the crypt was converted into a dignified war memorial. The funerary monument, a massive aluminium block on a tuff base, depicts a dead warrior and is the work of sculptor Alois Dorn.