Benedictine monastery Mondsee (Kloster Mondsee) description and photos - Austria: Lake Mondsee (Topic)

Benedictine monastery Mondsee (Kloster Mondsee) description and photos - Austria: Lake Mondsee. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The name in English is Kloster Mondsee.

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The Benedictine monastery of Mondsee is an abbey in Upper Austria near the federal state of Salzburg. The history of the Mondsee village dates back to 748, when a Benedictine monastery was founded on the shores of Lake Mondsee, the first monastery in Upper Austria.

The Mondseeland region, in which the monastery is located, was formerly part of Bavaria. In 748 Odilo, Duke of Bavaria, founded an abbey. According to monastic tradition, the first monks came from the Monastery of Monte Cassino in Italy.

In 788, after the fall of Duke Tassilo III, the Monastery of Mondsee became an imperial abbey. During this period, the first handwritten psalter was created here, and in 800 the Bible was translated into Old German at the abbey.

In 831, King Louis the Pious gave the monastery to the diocese of Regensburg. The abbey regained its independence in 1142 under the abbot Conrad II, who became abbot of Mondsee in 1127 and was extremely successful in protecting and restoring the rights and possessions of the monastery. Such aspirations and views of Konrad displeased a group of nobles. 3 years after the monastery gained independence, in 1145 Conrad II was killed. He is revered as a martyr. His successor, Blessed Walter (died May 17, 1158), is also remembered for his exemplary pursuit of virtue. He was buried in the chapel of St. Peter in the abbey church.

In 1506 the lands of Mondseeland were transferred to Austria. In 1514, Abbot Wolfgang Haberl established a grammar school at the abbey. After a period of decline during the Reformation, the monastery entered a new period of prosperity. In 1773, the abbot was Oportunus II Dunkla, who was the last abbot of Mondsee: in 1791 the monastery was dissolved by Emperor Leopold II.

Today, the monastery has its main attraction - the Church of St. Michael, rebuilt from an ancient Romanesque church into 15th century in the Gothic style, and several buildings that house a local history museum.

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