!!!Kremsmünster

Kremsmuenster, Upper Austria, market town in the district of Kirchdorf 
an der Krems, alt. 384 m, pop. 5,963, area 
42.11 km%%sup 2/%, industrial and commercial centre situated on 
the River Krems.- Sports hall, vocational school for joiners, abbey 
boarding school (Gymnasium), retreat house run by Benedictine nuns. 
2,970 people employed (1991), 62% of them in the production sector 
(including the building industry): glass industry with industrial 
glass production (especially bottles) and Gablonz glass (crystal 
chandeliers, gift articles), synthetics industry ( Greiner Holding 
AG), main site of the RohoelaufsuchungsGmbH (petroleum prospecting) in 
Upper Austria (in the cadastral district of Krift), summer tourism 
(21,343 overnight stays).- Monastery founded in 777; collegiate 
church, a Late Romanesque three-aisled pier-type basilica with a 
Benedictine choir (1232-1350), alterations in Baroque style by C. A. 
Carlone from 1613, most alterations performed between 1680 and 1720, 
remarkable stuccoes by G. B. Colombo and G. B. Barberini, frescoes by 
the Garbenberger brothers; interior (1682-1720): sculptures by M. 
Zuern the Younger and J. Pfaffinger, paintings by K. Loth and J. K. 
von Reslfeld. Gunther barrow (around 1304), Lady Chapel (1676/77); the 
treasury contains the famous  Tassilo chalice (8%%sup th/%  century) 
and the Tassilo candelabrum; 17%%sup th/%  century monastery, altered 
by C. A. Carlone and J. Prandtauer into a symmetric Baroque abbey from 
1680 until after 1729. In the abbot's wing is a prelate's chapel with 
an altarpiece by J. M. Rottmayr (1712), rich collection of works of 
art and arms; the library contains more than 100,000 volumes, 792 
incunabula, 416 manuscripts and 2 evangelistaries from the 8%%sup th/% 
 and 9%%sup th/%  centuries, built in 1675, stucco ornaments by G. 
Alfieri (1684) with frescoes by C. Lederwasch (1692); in the household 
section is a remarkable fish tank by C. A. Carlone (1692) and J. 
Prandtauer (1717); arms hall;  "Mathematischer Turm", 50 m high, 
former astronomical observatory (1749-1758), built by A.  Desing, with 
natural history collection; garden house (1640/1641, called "mosque") 
by D. F. d'Allio.- Museum for brass music at Kremsegg Palace. 
Late Gothic town houses (e.g. the town hall) in the town centre; 
Baroque Calvary church (1736-1738) by J. M. Prunner, with 
stairway and stations of the cross, altarpiece by B. Altomonte. 
Subsidiary church in Kirchberg (parish church until 1784), early 
Rococo building from 1753/1754); Heiligenkreuz pilgrimage church 
(1687-1690, by C. A. Carlone).

!Literature
R. W. Litschel, Kremsmuenster 1200 Jahre 
Benediktinerstift, 1976; Marktgemeinde Kremsmuenster (ed.), Markt 
Kremsmuenster 1489-1989, 1989.


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