!!!St. Georgenberg-Fiecht

St. Georgenberg-Fiecht, Tirol, municipality of Vomp in the district 
of Schwaz. Monastery built on a hill around 950, accessible only 
across a bridge, handed over to the Benedictines in 1138. Church 
(1654-1660), reconstructed in Baroque style between 1733 and 1735. 
After a fire in 1705 only 2 wings of the original monastery remained, 
in which Cardinal M.  Klesl was imprisoned between 1619 and 1622. J. 
Abfalter and S. Schweikart built a new monastery between 1707 and 1710 
in the hamlet of Fiecht in the Inn Valley. Hartmannstab crosier 
(12%%sup th/%  century) in the museum.


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