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Klosterneuburg / Austria

Klosterneuburg es una pequeña ciudad de Austria, en el Bundesländer de Baja Austria. Está situada junto al Danubio, inmediatamente al norte de Viena, de la que la separan las colinas de Kahlenberg y Leopoldsberg. A su vez, está separada de la ciudad gemela de Korneuburg, situada al otro lado del Danubio, desde que el río cambió de curso en la Edad Media. Debido a que se asienta en un territorio de múltiples colinas, la ciudad se divide en siete áreas: Klosterneuburg-Stadt, Höfflein an der Donau, Kierling , Kritzendorf, Weidling, Weidlingbach y Maria Gugging. Como su propio nombre indica , el desarrollo de la ciudad está ligado al famoso monasterio o abadía del mismo nombre, fundado en 1114 por el margrave Leopoldo III , que trasladó allí su residencia y, por tanto, la capitalidad de la Marca de Austria. En 1156, cuando Austria fue elevada al rango de ducado independiente de Baviera, la capital se trasladó de Klosterneuburg a Viena. Klosterneuburg obtuvo su carta municipal en 1298. De 1938 a 1954 , Klosterneuburg se vio reducido a constituir el 26º distrito de Viena. Aunque recobró su autonomía municipal en la última fecha indicada, en la práctica funciona como un suburbio residencial de la capital, aunque es también sede de empresas de industria ligera.

Klosterneuburg Monastery

Klosterneuburg / Austria

Klosterneuburg Monastery is a twelfth-century Augustinian monastery of the Roman Catholic Church located in the town of Klosterneuburg in Lower Austria. Overlooking the Danube, just north of the Vienna city limits at the Leopoldsberg, the monastery was founded in 1114 by Saint Leopold III of Babenberg, the patron saint of Austria, and his second wife Agnes of Germany.The abbey church, dedicated the Nativity of Mary , was consecrated in 1136 and later remodeled in the Baroque style in the seventeenth century. The impressive monastery complex was mostly constructed between 1730 and 1834. Its foundations, including a castle tower and a Gothic chapel, date back to the twelfth century. Other older buildings still extant within the complex include the chapel of 1318 with Saint Leopold's tomb. From 1634 on, the Habsburg rulers had the facilities rebuilt in the Baroque style, continued by the architects Jakob Prandtauer and Donato Felice d'Allio. The plans to embellish the monastery on the scale of an Austrian Escorial were later resumed by the Neoclassical architect Joseph Kornhäusel, though only small parts were actually carried out. In 1879, the abbey church and monastery were restored according to plans by Friedrich von Schmidt, and the neo-Gothic twin steeples were erected.Klosterneuburg Monastery contains the Verduner Altar, made in 1181 by Nicholas of Verdun. Its three parts comprise 45 gilded copper plates modeled on Byzantine paragons, similar to the Shrine of the Three Kings at Cologne Cathedral. The monastery also contains a museum with a collection of Gothic and Baroque sculpture and a gallery of paintings, including fifteen panel paintings by Rueland Frueauf from 1505, four Passion paintings from the backside of the Verduner Altar from 1331, and the Babenberg genealogical tree.