Altenburg
(Lower Austria)

Benedictine
Founded 1144

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Plundered in 1427 and again in 1430 by the Hussites, in 1467 by Victorin, in 1473 by Matthias Corvinus, in 1480, etc. By 1552, Altenburg had been reduced to a "desolate pile of rubble."
Thirty Years War: Altenburg plundered by Horn peasants (1619) and by Swedish troops (1645)
Complex razed and new construction begun in late 17th C. Present building erected under Abbot Placidus Much (1729–42), architect Josef Munggenast
1797: Austrian military hospital		 Aerial photograph
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Source: (photo) Stift Altenburg; (text) G. Stenzel, Von Stift zu Stift in Österreich (Vienna, 1977), p. 47-51.