Klosterneuburg Monastery

Klosterneuburg Monastery is a 12th-century Augustinian monastery of the Roman Catholic Church placed inside the metropolis of Klosterneuburg in Lower Austria. Overlooking the Danube, simply north of the Vienna town limits on the Leopoldsberg, the monastery become based in 1114 with the aid of Saint Leopold III of Babenberg, the consumer saint of Austria, and his 2d spouse Agnes of Germany. The abbey church, devoted the Nativity of Mary, become consecrated in 1136 and later made over in the Baroque fashion in the seventeenth century. The awesome monastery complex become in general constructed between 1730 and 1834.

Its foundations, which includes a castle tower and a Gothic chapel, date returned to the twelfth century. Other older homes nonetheless extant in the complex include the chapel of 1318 with Saint Leopold's tomb. From 1634 on, the Habsburg rulers had the facilities rebuilt in the Baroque style, continued by way of the architects Jakob Prandtauer and Donato Felice d'Allio. The plans to decorate the monastery on the scale of an Austrian Escorial have been later resumed with the aid of the Neoclassical architect Joseph Kornhäusel, even though most effective small parts had been truly carried out.