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Styria, southern district of the town of  Leoben (since 1938), oldest 
monastery in Styria, founded before 1020; under Emperor 
Heinrich II the first monks came to Goess from the Nonnberg free 
imperial abbey (then in the Principality of Salzburg). Goess was the 
only free imperial abbey in Austria; it was dissolved in 1782. 
1784-1800 seat of the diocese of Leoben. Collegiate church, (now the: 
parish church) with crypt from the early Romanesque period (beginning 
of the 11%%sup th/%  century), nave from the late Gothic period 
(around 1520), richly ornamented south portal with tracery, altar 
paintings by M. J. Schmidt (1791); tombstones from the 15%%sup th/% , 
16%%sup th/% , and 17%%sup th/%  centuries (tombs of abbesses). Early 
Gothic Saint Michael´s chapel, with frescoes from the same 
period (saints, scenes from the Bible and the Song of Songs) one of 
the principal works of the early Gothic Zackenstil. The Goesser 
vestments are among the most magnificent liturgical robes from the 
Romanesque period; the silk embroidery and the iconographic designs 
(scenes from the Bible, saints, founders etc.) are still completely 
intact. They are exhibited at the MAK (Museum fuer Angewandte Kunst) 
in Vienna.- Goesser brewery owned by the  Brau Union Oesterreich AG, 
museum of the history of brewing, Novopan works, sawmill.

!Literature
G. Jontes, Stift Goess, Geschichte und Kunst, 1977.


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