!!!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 km%%sup 2/%, 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 17%%sup th/%  
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 17%%sup th/%  century.

!Literature
Gemeinde Mauerbach (ed.), Markterhebung Mauerbach 
29. Mai 1983, Festschrift, 1983.


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