!!!Schönbühel-Aggsbach

Schoenbuehel-Aggsbach, Lower Austria, market town in the district of 
Melk, alt. 210 m, pop. 1,045, area 28.34 km%%sup 2/%, summer 
tourism (27,507 overnight stays in 1992), popular destination for day 
trips, on the southern bank of the River Danube, in the Wachau region; 
cadastral districts of Aggsbach Dorf and Aggstein; ship landing-stage. 
- Parish church and affiliated Schoenbuehel Servite monastery (until 
1980), founded 1666-1670, Peregrinus chapel with ceiling fresco by J. 
Bergl (1767), lower church with Holy Sepulchre (1669) modelled on the 
Bethlehem grotto in Jerusalem, Calvary Hill (1769); high above the 
River Danube lies Schoenbuehel Castle (originally 12%%sup th/%  
century, current building from 1819-1821), chapel (1710-1727); 
Aggsbach Charterhouse, founded in 1380 by H. von Maissau, 
suspended in 1782, now Carthusian museum; built before 1393 and 
altered around 1600; the monks´ cells and the 3%%sup rd/%  wing 
of the cloister were demolished in the 19%%sup th/%  century; former 
late-Gothic monastic church (1392), now the parish church, parts of 
interior taken from the St. Poelten church of Carmelite nuns, high 
altar (1913) with painting by T. Pock (1673), tombstones of the 
Maissau family.  Aggstein and Wolfstein Ruins (first documented 
mention 1286, fell into disuse after 1605) located in the 
municipality.

!Literature
W. Haeusler, Geschichte des Servitenklosters Schoenbuehel, 
doctoral thesis, Vienna 1969.


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