Admont Abbey is a Benedictine monastery on the river Enns in Admont and is considered the oldest monastery in Styria. The abbey is famous for its world's largest monastic library.

Admont Abbey was founded in 1074 by Archbishop Gebhard Salzburg. The monastery flourished in the Middle Ages, Abbot Engelbert (1297-1327) was a renowned scholar and author of many scientific papers. Since its founding, the abbey Admont was not only a religious center, but also educational. Particularly strong monks were in the natural sciences and history.

In 1774, architect Josef Huber built a new hall for the library (length - 70 meters, width - 14 meters, and the ceiling height - 13 meters). The new hall has moved about 200 thousand books, among which there were more than 1,000 rare manuscripts of the Middle Ages, rare ornaments and engravings.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, the abbey reached the highest point of the creative success thanks to the work of the world famous church Embroidery Brother Benno Khan and sculptor Joseph Shtammelya (1695-1765).

April 27, 1865, a fire destroyed almost the entire monastery. While monastic archives were burned, the library was saved. Reconstruction began the following year, and has not yet been fully completed by 1890.

The economic crises of the 1930s made the abbey to sell many of its artistic treasures, the period of the National Socialist government, the monastery was dissolved and the monks expelled. The monks were able to return in 1946, and today the monastery is again a thriving community of Benedictine.