Seitenstetten is a town in the district of Amstetten in

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Geography

Seitenstetten lies in the

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in Lower Austria. About 25.84 percent of the municipality is forested.

History

One ''Udalschalk ''or'' Udiskalk'', first mentioned in 1109, founded a monastery there in 1112 and gave all of his properties in ''Seitenstetten, Grünbach, Heft'' and ''Stille'' (in today's Upper Austria). In 1114, Benedictine monks from

Göttweig Abbey Göttweig Abbey (german: Stift Göttweig) is a Benedictine monastery near Krems in Lower Austria. It was founded in 1083 by Altmann, Bishop of Passau. History Göttweig Abbey was founded as a monastery of canons regular by Blessed Altmann (c ...

were installed there. In 1116, Bishop ''Ulrich I. von Passau'', related to the Udalschalk family, consecrated the abbey's church and donated the large ''Aschbach'' parish. In 1142, parish ''Wolfsbach'' was added. Those two major parishes were, by the time, split up into the fourteen parishes of which the abbey is in charge up to now. Around 1180,

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, donated large woods near the

Ybbs Ybbs () is a river in Lower Austria. Its drainage basin is . Its source is located on the Zellerrain Pass near Mariazell. In the beginning, the river is called , then onwards from the border between Lower Austria and Styria up to Lunz am See it i ...

river.

References

Seitenstetten ferne.jpg Seitenstetten - Stift, Hofgarten.JPG seitenstetten_kirche_aussen.jpg seitenstetten_innen.jpg seitenstetten_hof_brunnen.jpg Cities and towns in Amstetten District {{LowerAustria-geo-stub