!!!Wilhering

Wilhering, Upper Austria, market town in the district of Liezen, alt. 
270 m, pop. 4,649, area 29.97 km%%sup 2/%, residential town on a 
bend of the River Danube west of Linz, on the western edge of the 
Kuernberger Wald Mountain. Collegiate Gymnasium secondary school, 
Ottensheim-Wilhering run-of-river power station (erected in 1973, 179 
MW), switching station of the Oberoesterreichische Kraftwerke AG, 
control engineering, locksmith's shops, horticultural enterprise run 
by the Abbey. - The Cistercian Abbey was founded in 1146, 
establishment of the Gymnasium secondary school under abbot T. 
Grasboeck around 1900; a western wing was built for the Gymnasium 
secondary school in 1995; the mediaeval construction was rebuilt to a 
large extent after the fire of 1733, according to plans of J. 
Haslinger. The interior of the collegiate church, which is said to be 
the most splendid Rococo church interior in Austria, was probably 
built after a master plan by A. Altamonte; colourful plastic stucco 
and sculptures by the Wessobrunn masters J. G. Uebelherr and J. M. 
Feichmeier; Gothic cenotaphs of the Earls of Schaunberg, ceiling 
paintings and altar pieces by B. and M. Altamonte; abbey with 
late-Romanesque core, gallery of Austrian Baroque painters in the 
prelate wing (B. Altomonte, A. Maulbertsch, M. J. Schmidt); collegiate 
library (historical books until 1900, around 40,000 volumes, 20,000 
volumes from the 20%%sup th/%century, 150 mediaeval manuscripts, 220 
incunabula, magnificent Abbey gardens with rare plants.

!Literature
Zisterzienserstift Wilhering (ed.), Wilhering Stift und 
Kirche, 1983.


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