Mauerbach#

Mauerbach, Lower Austria, market town in the district of Wien-Umgebung, alt. 281 m, pop. 3,222 (2,227 in 1981), area 20.32 km2, residential area and destination for day trippers situated west of Vienna in the northern parts of the Vienna Woods. Former Carthusian monastery (situated in the "Allerheiligental" (part of Mauerbach near the Allerheiligenberg Hill), founded by Friedrich the Fair in 1313, abolished in 1782. The monastery was altered in Baroque style between 1616 and 1631, but the original arrangement of cells was preserved. Between 1784 and 1955 the monastery buildings housed an old people´s home. Today these rooms house a vocational training centre for restorers run by the Austrian Monuments Preservation Office. Former monastery church (around 1680), passage separating the choir stalls reserved for the monks ("choir monks") from the pews intended for lay brothers, crypt beneath the choir, stuccowork dating from the end of the 17th century, altarpiece of the high altar created by A. Celesti around 1700. Ruins of a Late Gothic graveyard chapel in the court of the monastery. Early Baroque parish church dating from the first half of the 17th century.

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