Abbey of St. Lambrecht - Benedictine monastery in Styria. The monastery is located at an altitude of 1072 meters above sea level. Every year the monastery of St. Lambrecht is visited by many tourists.

The monastery was founded in 1076 by Count Markvordom of Eppinshtayna. Soon after the founding of the monastery appeared in a collection of manuscripts. It consisted of a theological and liturgical books, as well as some works of ancient writers. The development of the library took place thanks to the abbot John Friedberg (1341-1359), who was trained in Bologna, and the increase occurred in the stock library including his own.

In 1262 there was a fire in the church, resulted in a partial destruction. Restoration work was carried out before 1327, new walls were built on the basis of preserved old. The consecration of the new building of the temple took place in 1421 when Abbot Henry Moyker (1419-1455).

January 4, 1786 because the church reforms of Emperor Joseph, the entire library was moved to the University of Graz. However, already under Emperor Francis II in 1802, the entire collection went back to the monastery of St. Lambrecht and historically valuable manuscripts remained in Graz.

In May 1938 the monastery was confiscated by the Nazis under the leadership of SS Lieutenant Colonel Hubert Erhart. More than 2,100 books have been re-exported in Graz, and the rest of the library survived the war in the monastery. After the return of all the property of the monastery in 1946 the total number of books amounted to about 30 thousand.

In 1946, the monks returned to the abbey. Currently, the monastery has about 4,000 hectares of agricultural land and forest land.

The monastery is a museum with a collection of antique furniture, sculptures and stained glass 15-16 century. Not far from the monastery is an ancient cemetery with 12th-century Romanesque chapel.