Sankt Polten Cathedral

Sankt Polten Cathedral dedicated to the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Sankt Pölten, Lower Austria. It has been the episcopal seat of the Diocese of Sankt Polten in Austria on account that 1785, having formerly been the church of the Augustinian Abbey of St. Polten, dissolved in 1784. The building, notwithstanding being a nicely-preserved late Romanesque structure, is Baroque in appearance. The use of the website for religious buildings is thought to this point from round 790, whilst a Benedictine monastery was established right here, to which have been added the relics of Saint Hippolytus, after whom the present metropolis is called.

In 828, the monastery became a ownership of the Diocese of Passau, and a centre of missionary activity, predominantly in Great Moravia. After the invasion of the Magyars in round 907, the monastery was almost entirely destroyed, and become now not rebuilt until after the Battle of Lechfeld in 955. The first documentary reference is in a charter of 976 from Emperor Otto II to Bishop Pilgrim of Passau.