Video: Admont Abbey: a monastery as a work of art
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The abbeys have long been distinguished by their extraordinary beauty and luxury. Particularly impressive is the Admont Abbey located on the Enns River in the city of Admont (Austria). It is the oldest surviving monastery and is also famous for containing the largest monastery library in the world. But most of the tourists come to the abbey not for the sake of old books, but for the architecture, executed in the luxurious Baroque style.
The library consists of three rooms and has a total length of 70 meters, 14 meters wide and 11 meters high in the main building and 12.7 meters under the central dome. The ceilings are decorated with seven biblical frescoes by Bartolomeo Altomonte, and the library rooms are decorated with sumptuous sculptures by Josef Stammel. The most famous figures that still attract public attention are 4 sculptures symbolizing death, the last judgment, hell and heaven.
It is impossible not to mention the invaluable collection of the library, consisting of 200 thousand volumes, of which more than 1400 manuscripts dated to the 8th century BC. and 530 early printed books published before 1500. Despite all the invaluable value of the abbey as an architectural monument, the cathedral is open to visitors from March 24 - December 31 every day from 10 am to 5 pm, so everyone can admire the luxurious sculptures and frescoes in person.
If we talk about Orthodox churches, then much attention is paid to the church bell, the history of the creation of which can be read in one of our past reviews.
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