!!!Baumgartenberg

Baumgartenberg, Upper Austria, municipality in the district of Perg, 
alt. 237 m, pop. 1,424, area 15.72 km%%sup 2/%, lying in the 
Machland marshlands north of the River Danube, convent and girls' 
boarding house of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, production of 
aluminium foils and concrete ware; Cistercian abbey built 1141-1784, 
former abbey church in late Romanesque and early Gothic styles with 
opulent Baroque interior. Four phases of construction can be 
discerned: 1%%sup st/%  phase: Romanesque basilica (1243) with arcade 
columns in the nave, the crossing and the choir walls (preserved); 
2%%sup nd/%  phase: early Gothic narthex to the atrium (1301-1306); 
3%%sup rd/%  phase 1436-1446, choir rebuilt and a uniform roof 
structure created; 4%%sup th/%  phase: church changed in the Baroque 
style (1660-1697) by A. Carlone (stucco by B. Carlone), frescoes 
(1698) by G. A. Mazza, Baroque interior of high quality: high 
altar (late 17%%sup th/%  century, altar piece from 1694 by 
J. C. von Reslfeld), pulpit (approx. 1670) with image of St. 
Bernard in the base, gravestones from the 16%%sup th/%  and 
17%%sup th/%  centuries.


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