Lilienfeld Abbey

Lilienfeld Abbey is a Cistercian monastery in Lilienfeld in Lower Austria, south of Sankt Polten. It changed into based in 1202 with the aid of Leopold VI, Duke of Austria and Styria, as a daughter residence of Heiligenkreuz Abbey. Successive abbots acted as councillors to the rulers of Austria, and the abbey have become rich due to this treasured connection. Abbot Matthew Kollweis turned the monastery right into a castle at some stage in the Turkish develop towards Vienna in 1683, putting in a garrison and giving refuge to a big number of fugitives.

In the 17th century the medieval homes were extended through Baroque additions. In the primary half of the 18th century the tower, library and church interior and furnishings were also refurbished within the Baroque style. The abbey changed into suppressed with the aid of Emperor Joseph II in 1789, but despite the fact that the library, documents and transportable valuables have been eliminated, at the dying of Joseph II it turned into reopened by way of Emperor Leopold II as early as 1790.