Viktring Abbey

Viktring Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery in the Austrian state of Carinthia. Stift Viktring is now the name of the Roman Catholic parish in Viktring, due to the fact that 1973 a district of the Carinthian capital Klagenfurt. Viktring Abbey changed into mounted in 1142 by way of Cistercian priests from Villers-Bettnach Abbey inside the Duchy of Lorraine, of the filiation of Morimond. Its lands have been likely a present of Count Bernhard of Spanheim-Marburg, brother of Duke Engelbert of Carinthia, and his spouse Kunigunde, daughter of Margrave Ottokar II of Styria.

As early as thirteen May inside the following year the primary abbot, Eberhard, become consecrated. The abbey church become committed 60 years later via Eberhard of Regensburg, Archbishop of Salzburg, in 1202. In 1234 the Carinthian duke Bernhard von Spanheim founded Landstrass Abbey, latterly additionally called Kostanjevica Abbey, a daughter house of Viktring within the March of Carniola, within the modern Kostanjevica in Slovenia.