Lambach Monastery

In the north-west of Austria, in the area of the city of Lambach, there is an active Benedictine monastery - Lambach Abbey. For more than nine centuries, monks have lived here according to the statute of St. Benedict, while preserving unique works of art.

Lambach Abbey appeared in the early eleventh century as the estate of Count Lambach. One of the representatives of this family - Bishop of Würzburg Adalbero - bequeathed his property to the monastery. Thus the monastery was founded in 1056. For several centuries, the monastery buildings were reconstructed and rebuilt, but as a result, the architectural appearance retained the Baroque style.

In the 1780s, at the time of the reform by the Austrian emperor, the monks managed to avoid closing the monastery and preserve it. Only in 1941 the monks were dispersed, and a Nazi school was established in the monastery premises. It was only after the end of World War II that the monks were able to resume their former lives.

Today, pilgrims and tourists can see old Romanesque frescoes and modeling, amazing facades of buildings in the Baroque style, visit the monastery garden, which houses an amazing collection of dwarf dwarf dwarfs. The main treasure of the monastery is the preserved ashes of St. Adalbero in the abbey church and the monastery library. Founded in 1691, the library has about 50,000 volumes and even more unique archival materials.