Filialkirche Kleinmurham

The small Gothic church of St Valentine stands in the village of Kleinmurham in Upper Austria. Built of tuff stone, it has a single nave without buttresses and a flat wooden ceiling. The choir is one bay long with a five-sided end and a net-ribbed vault on half-circular shafts. A western bell turret was added in 1848, and the south door still shows its original Gothic fittings. Inside, the high altar dates from the third quarter of the 17th century. Its statues and crucifixion group, once attributed to Thomas Schwanthaler, were moved to the main parish church after restoration in 1958. A painted crucifixion dated 1626 now hangs in the Linz regional museum, leaving the altar itself stripped of its former furnishings. The church is listed as a protected monument in the Austrian art-history survey. Its quiet setting beside farmyards and orchards makes it easy to miss unless you walk the lanes around Weilbach. The plain exterior hides a rare example of late-medieval craftsmanship, unaltered except for the later roof turret.