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Kartitsch is an Austrian municipality in the district of Lienz (East Tyrol) in the Austrian state of Tyrol with 753 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2022). The municipality is located in the judicial district of Lienz. Kartitsch is located in the Tyrolean Gailtal, the highest of all East Tyrolean valleys, between the confluence with the Pustertal (over a terrain step) and the Kartitscher Sattel, 1525 m high.

Culture and sights

There are 16 listed immovable objects in Kartitsch, most of them are sacral buildings. The parish church of St. Leonhard is a Gothic church completed in 1479 with a mighty high altar from 1761-1763. It was remodeled in late Classicist style in 1830. The church of Our Lady in Hollbruck is a parish and pilgrimage church built between 1680 and 1685. It is one of the most uniform works in the area from the end of the early Baroque period. The stucco frames from the workshop of Gallus Apeller in Innsbruck, executed by Georg Holzmeister, deserve special mention. The Gothic Filial Church of St. Oswald, also a large church, has a polygonal choir and an attached tower with a high pointed helmet. Inside, the single-nave nave has 17th-century secco paintings, star vaults and a quality Baroque interior. Other listed objects are the parsonages in Kartitsch and Hollbruck, some chapels, the Stations of the Cross in Hollbruck and three war cemeteries for the fallen of the First World War