Zwettl Abbey

Zwettl Abbey is a Cistercian monastery located in Zwettl in Lower Austria, inside the Diocese of St. Polten. Zwettl Abbey become founded in 1137 with the aid of Hadmar I of Kuenring, with Herrmann, a monk of Heiligenkreuz Abbey, as its first abbot. It was a daughter residence of Heiligenkreuz, of the line of Morimond. The basis turned into showed by Pope Innocent II and over the route of time by means of numerous different popes and emperors. Several individuals of the family of the founder had been buried right here.

The monastery become constructed, as Cistercian houses frequently have been, in a river valley, in this situation in a bend of the River Kamp. Extensive buildings had been erected, and the church, chapter-room, and dormitory have been blessed in 1159, although the whole monastery was no longer finished until 1218. Zwettl Abbey soon became one of the maximum essential monasteries in the order. Towards the quit of the fourteenth century, the abbey was repeatedly plundered, especially in 1426, whilst four,000 Hussites sacked and burned it down.