!!!Schlägl

Schlaegl, Upper Austria, municipality in the district of Rohrbach im 
Muehlkreis, alt. 544 m, pop. 1,450, area 28.51 km%%sup 2/%, 
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 15%%sup th/%  century, 1626-1629 early-Baroque alterations 
(stucco by J. and G. Kandler), altars (18%%sup th/%  - 19%%sup th/%  
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.

!Literature
Stift Schlaegl (ed.), Schlaegler Schriften 1983ff.; W. 
Luger, Das Praemonstratenserstift Schlaegl, 1958; I. H. Pichler 
(ed.), Ein Kloster stellt sich vor. Praemonstratenser-Chorherren-Stift 
Schlaegl in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 1986.


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