!!!Seitenstetten

Seitenstetten, Lower Austria, market town in the district of 
Amstetten, alt. 349 m, pop. 2,981, area 30.48 km%%sup 2/%, 
on the Treffling river, in the western part of the northern Alpine 
Foothills. - Abbey secondary school (founded in 1814), Congregation of 
the Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis (old people´s 
home), airport for amateur pilots; production of glass-making 
machines, textile industry, trades, day tourism (around 50,000 
visitors per year). - Benedictine abbey (1112), early Gothic pier 
basilica (1254-1300), altered in Baroque style in 1630 and 1677 
(façade 1701-1711), sculptures by F. J. Feichtmayr, altar 
pieces (around 1700) by K. von Reselfeldt, grave monuments of 
abbots, late-Romanesque knight chapel (13%%sup th/%  century) with two 
glass paintings (1828) by L. Schnorr von Carolsfeld and A. Kothgasser; 
reconstruction of the abbey started by J. Munggenast (1719), basic 
structures by J. G. Hayberger (1747), 160 m long north front 
with 35 window axes, splendid ornaments on the east front (1724/25) by 
J. G. Piazzol, abbey stairways with ceiling fresco by B. 
Altomonte (1744), mineral collection with fresco by J. Bergl and 
Rococo cabinets; library (approximately 60,000 volumes, 270 medieval 
and 400 modern manuscripts, 230 incunabuli), ceiling fresco by P. 
Troger (1741) and painting by M. J. Schmidt; 19 oil paintings by 
M. J. Schmidt (1760-1764) in the summer refectory, collection of 
paintings (A. Magnasco, P. Brueghel, B. Altomonte, D. Gran, P. Troger, 
M. J. Schmidt), sculptures (G. R. Donner, T. Stammel), 
archaeological gallery; estate belonging to the abbey (1769) with 
large fruit wine (must) cellar and granary; music archive (Schubert 
collection with 300 first editions).

!Literature
P. Ortmayr and Ae. Decker, Das Benediktinerstift 
Seitenstetten, 1955; B. Wagner, S. Udaschalks Erbe im Wandel der Zeit, 
1980; Seitenstetten, Kunst und Moenchtum an der Wiege Oesterr., 
exhibition catalogue, 1988; E. Mueller, Siedlungsgeographie des 
Gebietes von Seitenstetten unter besonderer Beruecksichtigung 
kunstgeographischer Aspekte, doctoral thesis, Salzburg 1989.


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