Göss Abbey

The parish church of St. Francis Xavier was built from 1660 to 1665. After the abolition of the Jesuit Order in 1773, it was no longer used and in 1811 it was transformed into a parish church. Its interior has remained practically unchanged since the 17th century.

The parish church of St. Oswald was built in the 11th century in the Romanesque style. A late Gothic building was then mentioned as early as the 14th century. In the middle of the 18th century, from 1752 to 1755, the church was rebuilt in the Baroque style. The tower had a baroque dome which was destroyed by lightning in 1834 and replaced by the current pointed helmet.

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.