Ehemaliges Stift Sankt Bernhard - Eingang

Sankt Bernhard Abbey (german: Stift Sankt Bernhard) is a former

Cistercian The Cistercians, () officially the Order of Cistercians ( la, (Sacer) Ordo Cisterciensis, abbreviated as OCist or SOCist), are a Catholic religious order of monks and nuns that branched off from the Benedictines and follow the Rule of Saint ...

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Sankt Bernhard-Frauenhofen Sankt Bernhard-Frauenhofen is a town in the district of Horn in Lower Austria in Austria. 21.03% of the municipality are forested. It lies in the Waldviertel The (Forest Quarter; Central Bavarian: ) is the northwestern region of the northe ...

Lower Austria Lower Austria (german: Niederösterreich; Austro-Bavarian: ''Niedaöstareich'', ''Niedaestareich'') is one of the nine states of Austria, located in the northeastern corner of the country. Since 1986, the capital of Lower Austria has been Sankt P ...

History

In 1277, the Cistercian nunnery previously located in Neumelon was relocated onto land in ''Chrueg im Pewreich am Teffenbach'' (the modern Sankt Bernhard) which Stephan von Maissau had donated for this purpose. He was married to Margarete von Neuhaus, a member of the noble family of Hradec, whose sister was the abbess here in 1285. The abbey was dissolved in 1580 during the

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and in 1586, the building and its grounds were granted to the

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college in

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. After the college was in turn dissolved in 1773, the former abbey passed through a number of private hands and began to decay, until it came into the possession of

Klosterneuburg Priory Klosterneuburg Abbey or Monastery (german: Stift Klosterneuburg) is a twelfth-century Augustinian monastery of the Roman Catholic Church located in the town of Klosterneuburg in Lower Austria. Overlooking the Danube, just north of the Vienna city l ...

in 1852 following the death of the Freiherr von Ehrenfels. In 1947, the abbey church was renovated. In 1961 the

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along with the remains of the

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were removed to Klosterneuburg Priory.

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Timeline of the abbey
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History

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