Melk

Melk is a city of Austria, in the federal nation of Lower Austria, next to the Wachau valley alongside the Danube. Melk has a populace of 5,257. It is excellent called the website of a huge baroque Benedictine monastery named Melk Abbey. The metropolis is first stated as Medilica in 831 in a donation of Louis the German; the call is from a Slavic phrase for 'border.' The place around Melk became given to Leopold I, Margrave of Austria, in the yr 976 to serve as a buffer among the Magyars to east and Bavaria to the west.

In 996 mention become first fabricated from a place called Ostarrichi, which is the foundation of the phrase Osterreich. The bluff which holds the modern monastery held a Babenberger fortress until the website became given to Benedictine priests from nearby Lambach by using Leopold II, in 1089. Melk received marketplace rights in 1227 and have become a municipality in 1898. In a totally small area, Melk gives a first rate deal of architectural range from many centuries.