Augustinian Abbey
Chorherrenstift St. Florian, Stiftsstraße 1, A-4490 St. Florian
Phone: +43 7(0) 224 8902 0 - Fax: +43 7(0) 224 8902 23
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The Augustiner Chorherrenstift Sankt Florian is a place of meeting and devotion, the cultural centre of the region and a treasure of the Austrian Baroque. There has been a cloister here since the Carolingian period but it changed into the hands of the Augustinians in the 11th century. The monastery was rebuilt in the baroque style, from 1686 onwards, first by Carlo Antonio Carlone and then Jakob Prandtauer. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the abbey was known as a centre of learning and culture and it is here that Anton Bruckner was first employed as a violinist then, eventually, as organist. His body lies in a crypt below the monastery’s organ.
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