Special story
Special story
- Founding legend: A valuable scarf from the donor family is lost in the Mur and gets stuck in a loop - as a pictorial interpretation alongside the historical reality of the land donation in 904.
- According to legend, praying nuns with torches on Calvary drove away attackers, whose lights were interpreted as “burning swords” - popular explanation for the tower and defensive wall against the Turkish threat.
- In April 1797, Napoleon Bonaparte took up residence in the rooms of the monastery that had recently been closed; On April 18, 1797, the preliminary peace of Leoben was signed in the nearby Eggenwald garden house.
- The “Josephinian savings coffin” from 1784 - a reusable coffin with a bottom flap to save material - is still preserved in the monastery's showroom today; The measure was withdrawn after just 6 months after massive protests.
- The monastery chronicle ends with the laconic entry: "In 1782 we were abolished. Amen." The last abbess was Gabriela Freiin von Schaffmann, who spent the last years of her life in poverty.
- The over 800 year old “Gösser Ornat” (donated by Abbess Kunigunde II, around 1260, embroidered by herself) was sold to the MAK Vienna in 1911; In Leoben there are recurring efforts to bring it back on loan for exhibitions.
- Coffins of the abbesses were placed in the crypt until the 1960s; Mummified bodies were later reburied in a shaft grave, the floor of which was lined with stones from the Mur - a conscious reference to the founding legend.
- According to legend, praying nuns with torches on Calvary drove away attackers, whose lights were interpreted as “burning swords” - popular explanation for the tower and defensive wall against the Turkish threat.
- In April 1797, Napoleon Bonaparte took up residence in the rooms of the monastery that had recently been closed; On April 18, 1797, the preliminary peace of Leoben was signed in the nearby Eggenwald garden house.
- The “Josephinian savings coffin” from 1784 - a reusable coffin with a bottom flap to save material - is still preserved in the monastery's showroom today; The measure was withdrawn after just 6 months after massive protests.
- The monastery chronicle ends with the laconic entry: "In 1782 we were abolished. Amen." The last abbess was Gabriela Freiin von Schaffmann, who spent the last years of her life in poverty.
- The over 800 year old “Gösser Ornat” (donated by Abbess Kunigunde II, around 1260, embroidered by herself) was sold to the MAK Vienna in 1911; In Leoben there are recurring efforts to bring it back on loan for exhibitions.
- Coffins of the abbesses were placed in the crypt until the 1960s; Mummified bodies were later reburied in a shaft grave, the floor of which was lined with stones from the Mur - a conscious reference to the founding legend.