Preimskirche

The present church of St. Margaretha is a reconstruction of an old church from 1898. The priest Josef Mangst undertook a complete reconstruction of the church in the historicist taste of the time, more precisely: in a mixed neo-Romanesque and neo-Gothic style. At that time, the tower was equipped with the semicircular windows of the bell tower, the triangular gables of the clock and the pointed helmet.

The Church of St Hippolytus is said to have been built together with a monastery in the second half of the 8th century. Around the middle of the 10th century, a single-nave church was presumably built. It was replaced by a new building in the second third of the 12th century in the form of a basilica still without a tower. During the renovation in 1898, all Baroque art was completely removed from the church. Between 1972 and 1975, the church underwent extensive renovation. In 2012-13, the west tower was finally renovated and refurbished.

The parish church of Lienz already existed in Romanesque form in the 13th century, and in 1430 it was transformed into a Gothic church with three naves. In 1737, lightning destroyed the tower and the roof of the church. The choir was remodelled in the Baroque style. The high altar is the most beautiful baroque altar in East Tyrol. The tower received its present neo-gothic form after the upper part was redesigned in the first decade of the 20th century.