The Weißenbach Ascension Church was built from 1966 to 1968 and is the first prefabricated church in Styria. The building has a cross-section of an equilateral triangle (Trinity), its stained glass windows from 1968 show the "Ascension", the "Crucifixion of Jesus", the "Resurrection of Jesus" and the "Christ as world judge".
Admont Abbey is a Benedictine monastery founded in 1074. It houses the world's largest monastic library, which was started in the mid-18th century and completed in 1776. For centuries, the monastery was not only the religious centre of Upper Styria, but also a centre of art and science. After a decline caused by the Turkish wars and the Reformation, the Counter-Reformation under Abbot Johann Hoffmann gave the abbey a new impetus. A fire in 1865 had devastating consequences. Apart from the library, it destroyed almost the entire monastery, including the organ built by Franz Xaver Krisman in 1782. Reconstruction began a year later, but the corresponding building plan was only partially realised.
The present building of the Protestant parish church dates from 1859 to 1863 and replaced a house of prayer built in 1785, after the "patent of tolerance" of Joseph II (1781) authorising Protestant worship. The Protestant parish church in Hallstatt is a listed monument in Austria.
"Maria im Schatten" is a Catholic 15th-century church and pilgrimage site surrounded by a local legend linked to the Virgin Mary.
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