- Göss Abbey
Göss Abbey (Stift Göss) is a former Benedictine nunnery in
Göss , now a part ofLeoben inStyria ,Austria .History
The nunnery was founded in 1004 by Adula or Adela of Leoben, wife of Count Aribo I, and her son, also called Aribo, the future
Archbishop of Mainz , on the family's ancestral lands, and was settled fromNonnberg Abbey inSalzburg . The first abbess was Kunigunde, sister of Archbishop Aribo. It was made anImperial abbey by Henry IV in 1020. The Benedictine Rule was introduced in the 12th century.The nunnery, the last remaining Imperial abbey on
Habsburg lands, was dissolved in 1782 in the course of the rationalist reforms ofJoseph II, Holy Roman Emperor , and from 1783 served for a short time as the seat of the newly-founded Bishopric of Leoben. In 1827 it was auctioned off and used for industrial purposes. In 1860 the premises were acquired by a brewer fromGraz (the nunnery had had its own brewer since 1459) and have since then been used as a brewery.Swabian College}
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