!!!St. Andrä an der Traisen

St. Andrae an der Traisen, Lower Austria, village in the district of 
St. Poelten, alt. 218 m, on the lower course of the River 
Traisen, cadastral district of the municipality Herzogenburg. - 
Nursing home of the City of Vienna; building and construction trade. - 
The monastery of the Augustinian Canons Regular established around 
1160 was closed in 1783 and subordinated to Herzogenburg in 1787, the 
building (built between 1698 and 1719) has been used as an old 
peoples' home of the City of Vienna since 1828; Baroque collegiate 
church (1725-1729), today parish church, high altar piece and ceiling 
frescoes (around 1730) by P. Troger, side altar-piece by J. G. 
Schmidt; crypt with tombs of provosts, library (1705).

!Literature
E. A. Wahl, Geschichte des ehemaligen 
Augustiner-Chorherren-Stiftes St. Andrae an der Traisen, doctoral 
thesis, Vienna, 1945.


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