St Georgenberg Fiecht Abbey

St. Georgenberg-Fiecht Abbey, the successor of St. Georgenberg Abbey, is a Benedictine monastery situated because 1708 in Fiecht within the network of Vomp in Tyrol, Austria; a pilgrimage church nonetheless stands on the original website online at the Georgenberg. Founded in 1138, it is the oldest extant monastery within the Tyrol.

According to culture, the web page's first use was as a hermitage in about the center of the tenth century by way of Blessed Rathold of Aibling, of the historical noble circle of relatives of the Rapotonen, who established his cellular at the Georgenberg a rocky outcrop rising some hundred metres above the Stallental valley close to Stans. Substantial donations to the network as early as 1000 or thereabouts from Albuin, Bishop of Brixen, and in 1097 from Emperor Henry IV advise that via that time there was already a well-set up monastery right here in place of a simple hermitage. The non secular network at St. Georgenberg was turned into a Benedictine abbey in 1138 with the aid of Reginbert, Bishop of Brixen; the papal charter of confirmation is dated 30 April 1138.