Klosterneuburg Monastery - Augustinian monastery in Lower Austria, on the banks of the Danube to the north of Vienna. The monastery was founded in 1114 by the Austrian Count Leopold III and his second wife, Agnes. According to legend, Agnes lost her favorite scarf that blew off with a neck and blew a gust of strong wind. Leopold found it a few years later, on the hunt. He claimed that the Virgin Mary brought him to the right place. That's where the scarf was found, the abbey was founded. About the reliability of such a beautiful legend is difficult to judge, but the scarf is still kept in the museum of the monastery. According to another legend, the monastery was built for sin slaughter.

After his death Leopold was buried in the abbey, in the crypt of the main church, the altar is decorated with lots of gilded tiles of the 12th century on biblical themes (the wizard Nicholas of Verdun). Spetsioza Chapel was consecrated as early as 1222 and is the oldest Gothic building in Austria.

When Archduke Maximilian III abbey served as the country's crown "as a symbol of the unity of the Austrian hereditary lands." In the first half of the 15th century during the reign of George Abbot Muestingera (1418-1442), who was a friend and pupil of the Viennese astronomer John Gmunden, it was created Seminary, where he studied the heavenly bodies, and create maps.

Since 1634 under the rule of the Habsburgs, many monastic buildings were rebuilt in the Baroque style by architects Jakob Prandtauer, Joseph Emaluelem Fischer von Erlach. In 1740, after the death of Charles VI., The reconstruction project was stopped. In 1882 the restoration of the church of the monastery designed by Friedrich von Schmidt in this period were created by two bell towers.

The most difficult period for the abbey came in 1941. The abbey was dissolved: the part of the monks were expelled, while others are sent to the army, and the rest were sent to prison or executed for anti-fascist ideas. Today, the abbey is home to 47 novices, working museum.