Admont Abbey

Admont Abbey is a Benedictine monastery founded in 1074. It houses the world's largest monastic library, which was started in the mid-18th century and completed in 1776. For centuries, the monastery was not only the religious centre of Upper Styria, but also a centre of art and science. After a decline caused by the Turkish wars and the Reformation, the Counter-Reformation under Abbot Johann Hoffmann gave the abbey a new impetus. A fire in 1865 had devastating consequences. Apart from the library, it destroyed almost the entire monastery, including the organ built by Franz Xaver Krisman in 1782. Reconstruction began a year later, but the corresponding building plan was only partially realised.

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  • Café within 500m

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Seckau Abbey

Seckau Abbey is a Benedictine abbey which was founded in 1140 by Adalram von Waldeck. It became a bishop's abbey in 1218 and its church became a cathedral. In 1782, during the reign of Joseph II, the abbey was dismantled. The abbey was purchased by the congregation of Beuron in 1883 after the German Benedictines of Beuron Abbey were forced into exile due to the Kulturkampf policy. It was erected as an abbey in 1887 and became famous for its liturgical research. The National Socialist authorities confiscated it in 1940 and transformed it into a national institution of political education (Nationalpolitische Erziehungsanstalten, Napola or NPEA). The monks returned at the end of 1945.