Elisabethkirchlein

Austria

Step off the Schneeberg railway at its top station and the little church is close by: a squat, domed building of rough stone at 1,796 metres, the highest place of worship in the Archdiocese of Vienna. Its full name is the Empress Elisabeth Memorial Church, and it was built in the Art Nouveau style to plans by the Viennese architect Rudolf Goebel. It was consecrated on 5 September 1901 by the Viennese auxiliary bishop Godfried Marschall. The source credits the commission to Emperor Franz Joseph I, in memory of his wife. Yet its own account of how the church came about is a story of local enthusiasts, committees and money troubles, so treat the imperial commission as the official framing rather than the whole tale.

Written with AI from the Wikipedia article Kaiserin-Elisabeth-Gedächtniskirche (de.wikipedia.org); facts only from there
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