Kremsmunster Abbey

Kremsmunster Abbey is a Benedictine monastery in Kremsmunster in Upper Austria. The monastery changed into founded in 777 with the aid of Tassilo III, Duke of Bavaria. According to the inspiration legend, Tassilo based the monastery at the website online in which his son, Gunther, had been attacked and killed through a wild boar all through a looking journey. The first colony of priests got here from Lower Bavaria, below Fateric, the first abbot. The new basis obtained beneficiant endowments from the founder and additionally from Charlemagne and his successors.

The function and popularity of the abbey quickly have become such that its abbots, inside the absence of the bishop of the diocese, exercised the episcopal jurisdiction. In the 10th century the abbey became destroyed in a raid with the aid of the Hungarians, and its possessions had been divided a number of the Duke of Bavaria and different nobles and the bishops. It was restored, but, and recovered its assets, beneath the emperor Henry II, whilst Saint Gotthard have become abbot.