St. Michael's Church

One of the oldest sights of Austria, the Church of St. Michael is located in Vienna. The church was founded in 1221 by Catholic monks, members of the Order of St. Michael. The church was built in a strict Romanesque style and in this form existed for several centuries.

The first reconstruction of the church took place in the sixteenth century. Architects considered the Romanesque style old-fashioned and changed it to Gothic. Unfortunately, in the eighteenth century, as a result of mass church reforms, the church was given to the Barbanite order. They aspired to the simplicity of the interiors and therefore found the Gothic style too pathetic. As a result, many works of Gothic art were simply destroyed.