!!!Kartäuser

Carthusians, religious order, traditionally devote themselves to a 
solitary life as hermits. The first Austrian Carthusians came from the 
monastery in Seitz (southern Styria) (Žiče, Slovenia) the 
oldest Carthusian monastery on German-speaking territory (founded in 
1165). There were three big Carthusian monasteries in Lower Austria, 
which were all closed by Joseph II in 1782:  Mauerbach (1313),  Gaming 
(1330) and  Aggsbach (1380).

!Literature
J. Hogg, Kartaeuser, in: Theologische Realenzyklopaedie, 
vol. 17, 1988.


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