Domkirche
Klagenfurt Cathedral—German Klagenfurter Dom, also called Dom- und Stadtpfarrkirche Hll. Petrus und Paulus—began as a distinctly Protestant statement in 1581, when it was built by Protestants and dedicated to the Holy Trinity. Commissioned by Christoph Windisch, Klagenfurt’s first mayor, it grew so large that it was the largest Protestant church in Austria at the time. In 1600, amid the Counter-Reformation, the cathedral was given to the Jesuits and rededicated to Saints Peter and Paul. That religious shift was not the only disruption: the church was razed by a fire, and the present structure was rebuilt in 1724. Later, in 1787, Bishop Franz Xaver von Salm-Reifferscheid made it the cathedral of the Diocese of Gurk. Today, as the episcopal seat of Gurk-Klagenfurt, its baroque character reflects how an originally Protestant foundation was absorbed into a Catholic reordering of the region. …
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