Description of the attraction
The Roman Catholic Church of St. George sits on a grassy hillside between Tesens and Serfaus, now part of the famous Serfaus-Fiss-Ladis ski center in Tyrol.
The temple was originally built in the Romanesque style. For the first time, you can read about him in the chronicle of 1429. Its current appearance dates from the second half of the 15th century. Then the exterior of the church was rebuilt in the Gothic style. The consecration of the renovated church took place in 1497.
The southern low tower with a wooden superstructure is crowned with a gable roof. On the southern façade, you can see the image of St. Christopher, created at the beginning of the 16th century.
The interior of the Church of St. George is very simple and unassuming. The polygonal choir is located on the north side of the nave. The coffered ceilings were made of wood in the 16th century. On the eastern side of the main hall, there are frescoes dating from the turn of the 15th-16th centuries. The temple is decorated with paintings on a religious theme. One of them is considered especially valuable, as it was written in 1482, presumably by the painter Marx Donaer. The high altar was created in 1680 by Steiner Martin Stamer. The statues of Saints George and Sebastian that adorn the altar are sculpted by the sculptor Clemens Sattler. The church also has a figure of the Virgin Mary of the Immaculate, dating from 1700. Another late Gothic altar is decorated with several highly artistic sculptures depicting saints. Among them, the statue of St. Anne stands out. In the barred niche in the choir, there was once a most valuable reliquary created in 1270-1280. The original of this work of art has been kept in the Tyrol State Museum since 1903.
