Gleink Abbey, Baroque monastery and museum in Steyr, Austria.
Gleink Abbey is a baroque monastery and museum in Steyr featuring stone buildings adorned with ornate exterior decorations and tall windows. The architecture dates from the late 17th century and displays the typical characteristics of that building period.
Gleink Abbey was founded in the early 12th century by Arnhalm I of Glunich, who gave his castle for conversion into a monastery; the premises dedicated to Saint Andrew were ready by the 1120s. The founder's family later ran short of money and passed the office of Vogt to Leopold the Strong, Margrave of Styria, who issued the foundation charter in 1125 and endowed the abbey with property around the present Gleinkersee. The abbey was dissolved on 21 May 1784 under Joseph II.
The Stiftsmuseum in the former abbey holds religious objects, ecclesiastical embroidery and vestments. The abbey church, dedicated to Saint Andrew, became the parish church in 1784 and still serves the parish. From 1832 to 1977 Salesian Sisters from Vienna ran a girls' academy in the buildings, using the church as their convent chapel.
The abbey is located at Gleinker Hauptstraße 20b in Steyr and can be visited during regular opening hours. Guided tours through the collection are available and help visitors understand the history of the site.
A set of 18th-century Baroque stone dwarves stood at the abbey until the 1970s, when they were moved to Schloss Lamberg in Steyr. Comparable sets from the same period survive at Lambach Abbey. The abbey buildings now also hold a museum of religious objects and ecclesiastical embroidery.
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