!!!Gleink

Gleink, Upper Austria, 9%%sup th/%  district of the town of Steyr. 
Former Benedictine monastery (founded in 1125, dissolved in 1784). 
Collegiate building from the second half of the 17%%sup th/%  and 
early 18%%sup th/%  centuries, stuccoed ceiling in Garsten hall 
(1720-1730), auditorium with stage, stone statuary in the park. Gleink 
became a Salesian convent in 1831. Today it houses a boarding school 
for maladjusted children. The former convent church, today the parish 
church, was built in the Romanesque period and redone in Gothic style 
in 1436. From 1648, Baroque elements were added, vault frescoes by G. 
Daller (1708/1709), high altar in auricular style (1664) and 
interesting side altars.


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