A pulsating place to meet.
From the moment you walk in, you realise that history has been written here. The first documentary evidence of the oldest Benedictine monastery in Austria - a spiritual meeting place and European hub - goes back to 739. It was a place for collecting art treasures, an educational institution with a boarding school for boys, and a lodging for travellers: the monasteries were a day’s ride apart. Those travelling to the east could take up quarters at Kremsmünster monastery; moving in the other direction, one could spend the night in Salzburg. In 1810, the monastery became a castle: Napoleon gave it to Count Wrede as a present. That was when worldly life was introduced; Mondsee became a place to meet, do business, celebrate grand festivities, and indulge in the divine beauty of the landscapes. And that has not changed.
HISTORY
From the moment you walk in, you realise that history has been written here. The first documentary evidence of the oldest Benedictine monastery in Austria - a spiritual meeting place and European hub - goes back to 739. It was a place for collecting art treasures, an educational institution with a boarding school for boys, and a lodging for travellers: the monasteries were a day’s ride apart. Those travelling to the east could take up quarters at Kremsmünster monastery; moving in the other direction, one could spend the night in Salzburg. In 1810, the monastery became a castle: Napoleon gave it to Count Wrede as a present. That was when worldly life was introduced; Mondsee became a place to meet, do business, celebrate grand festivities, and indulge in the divine beauty of the landscapes. And that has not changed.
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