Schlägl#

Schlaegl, Upper Austria, municipality in the district of Rohrbach im Muehlkreis, alt. 544 m, pop. 1,450, area 28.51 km2, located in a trough along the Grosse Muehl river, close to Aigen im Muehlkreis. - Schlaegl monastery with power plant, bioenergy heating station, home for young people, college of agriculture, forestry industry, restaurant business, horticultural business and brewery, Diendorf customs station; granite quarry, wood-working industry, summer tourism (16,351 overnight stays in 1992). - Monastery of the Premonstratensian Canons (founded 1218), formerly spiritual and economic centre of the north-western Muehlviertel region. Monastery (1626-1665) with remains from the late Middle Ages, one of the first Baroque monasteries in Upper Austria; collegiate church (1242-1260 and 1444-1481), late-Romanesque core, crypt (1218), Gothic alterations from the 15th century, 1626-1629 early-Baroque alterations (stucco by J. and G. Kandler), altars (18th - 19th centuries), pulpit (1647), choir stalls (1735); Gothic cemetery church (1440-1481), renovated in 1856, neo-Gothic interior added later. The library comprises 50,000 volumes and 279 manuscripts, the archives comprise 641 manuscripts and 390 medieval documents (almost all in facsimile), 150 portraits of monks (since 1801) in the picture gallery, portraits of praying figures since 1650, Gothic panel paintings, works by A. Altdorfer and M. J. Schmidt.

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