!!!St. Florian

St. Florian, Upper Austria, market town in the district of 
Linz-Land, alt. 296 m, pop. 5,116 (1981: 
pop. 4,129), area 44.21 km%%sup 2/%, municipality south 
east of Linz. - Recyclable waste collection centre, day-care home of 
the Lebenshilfe organisation of Upper Austria, old peoples' home, 
Sumerauerhof open-air museum (Samesleiten), hunting museum of Upper 
Austria (Hohenbrunn Palace), historical fire-fighting depot and abbey 
museum, museum, museum railway, golf course, advanced level school of 
agriculture. Production of windows and doors, furniture production, 
saw mill owned by the abbey, tent manufacture, building trade, cable 
production, 2 organ workshops, store house, furniture trade, 
transportation companies. - Abbey of Augustinian Canons Regular (since 
1071); monastery dating from Carolingian times; crypt built in 
pre-Romanesque/Romanesque times; walls and tower partly Gothic; 
remodelled in Baroque style (1686-1708), original building designed by 
C. A.  Carlone. Legend has it that the collegiate church was 
built above the grave of St.  Florian. Excavations suggest that the 
building goes back to Roman times. Decorated by B. Carlone (stucco 
work), J. A. Gumpp and M. Steidl (frescoes, 1690-1695); high 
altar by J. B. Colomba (1683-1690), choir stalls by A. Franz 
(1690), rich Baroque side altar-pieces with paintings by J. M. 
Rottmayr (1719) and A. Celesti (1700) and others. "Brucknerorgel" (the 
composer  Bruckner - was buried beneath this organ) by F. X. 
Chrismann (1770-74). The buildings of the Abbey, built by J. 
Prandtauer, J. and M. Steinhuber, surround 3 courtyards; staircase 
(1704-1714), marble room (1718-1724) with frescoes by B. Altomonte 
after sketches by M. Altomonte and trompe l'oeil painting by I. 
Sconzani (1723), imperial room (1706-1774), library (1744-1750, 
J. G. Hayberger) with around 130,000 volumes (809 manuscripts and 
800 incunabula). - Abbey collection: old gallery (paintings of the 
17%%sup th/%  and 18%%sup th/%  centuries), paintings from the 
15%%sup th/%  and 16%%sup th/%  centuries (by A. Altdorfer and 
works by the  Danube School (Donauschule); stained glass panels); 2 
wooden statues of St. Florian (around 1300); copper engravings, 
drawings; mineralogical collection.

!Literature
Oberoesterreichisches Landesarchiv (ed.), Sankt Florian. 
Erbe und Vermaechtnis, 1971; R. Feuchtmueller and E. Kovács 
(eds.), Welt des Barock, exhibition catalogue, 2 vols., 1986; F. 
Scharf, Haeuserchronik Marktgemeinde St. Florian, 1993.


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