Göttweig Abbey
Göttweig Abbey is a Benedictine monastery near Krems in Lower Austria. It was founded in 1083 by Altmann, Bishop of Passau. In the middle ages the abbey was a seat of learning with a library and a monastic school.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Monastery
- Description: Benedictine monastery near Krems in Lower Austria
- Also known as: “Göttweig”, “Stift Gottweig”, and “Stift Göttweig”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Paudorf station and Hellerhof.
Paudorf station
Railway station
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Paudorf station is a railway station, which is situated 200 metres north of Göttweig Abbey.
Hellerhof
Manor estate
Photo: Bolke, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hellerhof is a manor estate, which is situated 700 metres northeast of Göttweig Abbey.
Saint Altmann
Church
Photo: Duke of W4, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Saint Altmann is a church, which is situated 680 metres northeast of Göttweig Abbey.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Meidling and Fugging.
Fugging
Village
Fugging is a village in the municipality of Obritzberg-Rust, Sankt Pölten-Land, Austria. It is located in the state of Lower Austria and was known as Fucking until 1836. Fugging is situated 7 km south of Göttweig Abbey.
Krems
Photo: Xenophon, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Krems an der Donau is a riverside town in the Danube's Wachau Valley tourist region of Lower Austria.
Göttweig Abbey
- Categories: abbey, art museum, Ortschaft, and religion
- Location: Paudorf, Krems District, Lower Austria, Austria, Central Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Slovak—“Göttweig Abbey” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Абатство Гьотвейг”
- Bulgarian: “Гьотвайг”
- Catalan: “abadia de Göttweig”
- Chinese: “格特维克修道院”
- Czech: “Klášter Göttweig”
- Dutch: “Abdij van Gottweig”
- Dutch: “Abdij van Göttweig”
- French: “Abbaye de Gottweig”
- French: “abbaye de Göttweig”
- French: “Abbaye de Göttweig”
- German: “Gesamtanlage Stift Göttweig samt Vorgängerbauten, frühere Besiedlung”
- German: “Göttweig”
- German: “Gottweih”
- German: “Stift Göttweig”
- Hungarian: “Göttweigi apátság”
- Irish: “Stift Göttweig”
- Italian: “abbazia di Göttweig”
- Italian: “Abbazia di Göttweig”
- Japanese: “ゲットヴァイク修道院”
- Japanese: “ゲットヴァイヒ修道院”
- Latin: “Abbatia Gottwicensis”
- Latin: “Abbatia Gotwicensis”
- Polish: “Opactwo Benedyktynów Göttweig”
- Slovak: “Kláštor Göttweig”
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