Lambach Abbey

Lambach Abbey is a Benedictine monastery in Lambach in the Wels-Land district of Upper Austria, Austria. A monastery changed into based in Lambach in about 1040 through Count Arnold II of Lambach-Wels. His son, Bishop Adalbero of Wurzburg, changed the monastery right into a Benedictine abbey in 1056, which it has been considering. During the 17th and 18th centuries a awesome deal of work inside the Baroque style become carried out, much of it by way of the Carlone family. Lambach escaped the dissolution of the monasteries of Emperor Joseph II within the 1780s.

In 1897/ninety eight, Adolf Hitler lived inside the city of Lambach along with his parents and attended the monastery college, in which he noticed the Hakenkreuz or swastika utilized in ornamental carving on the stone and woodwork of the constructing. He later used it as a image for the Nazi Party, setting it in a white circle with a crimson heritage to be used as a flag. Between Easter Sunday and 31. Of October guided excursions are offered each day at 14:00. The excursion consists of entrance to the Romanesque frescoes, the Baroque theatre, the library and the Baroque church.