Geschichte Kloster Traunkirchen

Traunkirchen, Österreich

In 2020, Traunkirchen, with its 3500 year history, will be the venue for the anniversary year "1000 Years of the Traunkirchen Monastery". As part of the anniversary year, the long and exciting history has been prepared to bring it closer to visitors in the exhibition "Traunkirchen Abbey through the Ages". B.A. Elisabeth Rumpf and Mag. Reinhard Hofbauer tried to bring the Benedictine monastery, the heyday of this nunnery, the end of the female-led convent after 550 years in the Reformation, the takeover by the Societas Jesu with the aim of recatholization, the dissolution under Maria Theresa and Josef II, the use of the monastery building in the subsequent period up to the present in relation to the relevant historical time and development in the form of a tour.