Göttweig Abbey

Why go

This record is the abbey; it lies in Furth bei Göttweig, not in Krems. The abbey's site (in German) says it was founded in 1083 for a community of canons living under the Rule of St Augustine and handed to the Benedictines in 1094, that little of the medieval buildings survives because a fire in 1718 made a Baroque rebuilding necessary, and that the Baroque building, begun in 1720 under abbot Gottfried Bessel to plans by the imperial court architect Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt, was two-thirds completed. The site says the abbey is carried by a community of 32 monks. Its museum page says admission to the Museum im Kaisertrakt, with the imperial staircase and Paul Troger's ceiling fresco of 1739, includes an audio guide, and that groups can explore the abbey with its cultural guides daily and year-round, with group tours by advance registration.