Goss Abbey

Goss Abbey is a former Benedictine nunnery and former Cathedral in Goss, now a part of Leoben in Styria, Austria. After the abbey's dissolution in 1782 the church, now a parish church, was the seat of the fast-lived Bishopric of Leoben. The nunnery changed into based in 1004 by means of Adula or Adela of Leoben, spouse of Count Aribo I, and her son, also referred to as Aribo, the destiny Archbishop of Mainz, at the own family's ancestral lands, and became settled through canonesses from Nonnberg Abbey in Salzburg. The first abbess was Kunigunde, sister of Archbishop Aribo.

It become made an Imperial abbey by Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, in 1020. The Benedictine Rule turned into brought within the 12th century. Goss Abbey functioned for centuries as a centre for the Styrian aristocracy to have their daughters educated and if essential accommodated, and access become strictly constrained to individuals of the nobility. This is the excellent town.