Wilhering Abbey

Wilhering Abbey is a Cistercian monastery in Wilhering in Upper Austria, about 8 km from Linz. The buildings, re-constructed inside the 18th century, are acknowledged for his or her surprising Rococo ornament. The monastery turned into based through Ulrich and Kolo of Wilhering who donated their family's old citadel for the purpose, according with the want of their deceased father after the family had moved to their new citadel at Waxenberg in Oberneukirchen. It turned into settled initially by Augustinian Canons, but inside the first years the new foundation became beset with problems.

On 30 September 1146, Ulrich changed the canons with Cistercian clergymen from Rein Abbey in Styria. Then after much less than 40 years simplest two clergymen remained. In 1185, Heinrich, the fourth abbot, transferred the abbey to Burkhard, abbot of Ebrach Abbey, the mom residence of Rein, and the monastery became quickly re-settled by using clergymen from Ebrach, organising the community on a cozy footing.