List of Christian religious houses in Austria

This is an incomplete list of Christian religious houses in Austria, including those in territory historically Austrian but now in other countries, both for men and for women, whether or not still extant. All those so far listed are Roman Catholic.

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Austria

A

*Admont Abbey at Admont (Styria): Benedictine monks (and earlier also nuns)
*Aggsbach Charterhouse (dissolved) at Aggsbach (Lower Austria): Carthusians
*Altenburg Abbey at Altenburg (Lower Austria): Benedictine monks
*"Altmünster, see Traunkirchen Abbey"
*Arnoldstein Abbey (dissolved) at Arnoldstein (Carinthia): Benedictine monks

B

*Bad Gleichenberg Friary at Bad Gleichenberg (Styria): Franciscan friars
*Baumgartenberg Abbey (dissolved) at Baumgartenberg (Upper Austria): Cistercian monks; now used by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd and Franciscan friars
*Bertholdstein Abbey at Fehring (Styria): Benedictine nuns
* Capuchin friary, Bludenz (Vorarlberg): Capuchin friars

D

*Dürnstein Priory (dissolved) at Dürnstein in the Wachau (Lower Austria): Augustinian Canons

E

*Engelszell Abbey at Engelhartszell an der Donau (Upper Austria): Trappist monks, formerly Cistercian monks
*Enns Friary at Enns (Upper Austria): Franciscan friars, formerly Minorites

F

*"Fiecht Abbey, see St. Georgenberg-Fiecht Abbey"

G

*Gaming Charterhouse (dissolved) at Gaming in Scheibbs (Upper Austria): Carthusians
*Garsten Abbey (dissolved) at Garsten (Upper Austria): Benedictine monks
*Geras Abbey at Geras (Lower Austria): Premonstratensian canons
*Gleink Abbey (dissolved) at Gleink in Steyr (Upper Austria): Benedictine monks; later Salesian Sisters
*Göss Abbey (dissolved) at Göss in Leoben (Styria): Benedictine nuns
*Göttweig Abbey at Furth (Lower Austria): Benedictine monks
*Graz Friary at Graz (Styria): Franciscan friars
*"Gries Abbey, see Muri-Gries Abbey"
*Griffen Abbey (dissolved) at Griffen (Carinthia): Premonstratensian canons
*Gurk Abbey (dissolved) at Gurk (Carinthia): Benedictine monks and nuns
*Gut Aich Priory at Sankt Gilgen (Salzburg): Benedictine monks

H

*Hall in Tirol (Tyrol):
**Hall Abbey (dissolved): women's collegiate foundation ("Damenstift")
**Franciscan friary
**Poor Clares (dissolved)
*Hamberg College (dissolved) [situated very close to the border with Germany, and now used as student accommodation for the University of Passau] at Schardenberg (Upper Austria): Salvatorian brothers
*Heiligenkreuz Abbey at Heiligenkreuz (Lower Austria): Cistercian monks
*Herzogenburg Priory at Herzogenburg (formerly at St. Georgen an der Traisen, Traismauer) (Lower Austria): Augustinian Canons
*"Hohenfurt, see Rein Abbey"

I

*Innsbruck (Tyrol):
**Innsbruck Friary: Franciscan friars
**Redemptorist College, Innsbruck: Redemptorist Fathers

K

*Kahlenberg Hermitage (dissolved) at Josefsdorf, Döbling (Vienna): Camaldolese hermits [the former Camaldolese church, now the St. Josefskirche, remains]
*Klein-Mariazell Abbey (dissolved) at Kleinmariazell, Altenmarkt an der Triesting (Lower Austria): Benedictine monks
*Klostermarienberg Abbey (dissolved) at Mannersdorf an der Rabnitz (Burgenland): Cistercian monks
*Klosterneuburg Priory at Klosterneuburg (Lower Austria): Augustinian Canons
*Krems (Lower Austria): Piarist Fathers
*Kremsmünster Abbey at Kremsmünster (Upper Austria): Benedictine monks

L

*Lambach Abbey at Lambach (Upper Austria): Benedictine monks
*Leibnitz Friary at Leibnitz (Styria): Capuchin friars
*Redemptorist College, Leoben, at Leoben (Styria): Redemptorist Fathers
*Lienz (Tyrol):
**Carmelite friary
**Franciscan friary
*Lilienfeld Abbey at Lilienfeld (Lower Austria): Cistercian monks

M

*Maria Enzersdorf (Lower Austria):
**Franciscan friary
**Poor Clares
**St. Gabriel's Mission House: Missionaries of the Divine Word [aka Steyler Missionaries] (monks)
*"Maria Plain, see Salzburg"
*"Maria Roggendorf, see (1) Marienfeld Priory and (2) St. Joseph's Priory"
*Mariastern Abbey at Gwiggen, Hohenweiler (Vorarlberg): Cistercian nuns
*Maria Waldrast near Matrei am Brenner (Tyrol): Servite friars
*Marienfeld Priory at Marienfeld near Hollabrunn (Lower Austria): Cistercian nuns
*Marienkron Abbey at Mönchhof (Burgenland): Cistercian nuns
*Mattsee Priory at Mattsee (Salzburg): secular canons, formerly Benedictine monks
*Mauerbach Charterhouse (dissolved) at Mauerbach (Lower Austria): Carthusians
*"Mehrerau Abbey, see Wettingen-Mehrerau Abbey"
*Melk Abbey at Melk (Lower Austria): Benedictine monks
*Michaelbeuern Abbey at Dorfbeuern (Salzburg): Benedictine monks
*Millstatt Abbey (dissolved) at Millstatt (Carinthia): Benedictine monks; Knights of the Order of St. George; Jesuits
*Mondsee Abbey (dissolved) at Mondsee (Upper Austria): Benedictine monks

N

*Neuberg Abbey (dissolved) at Neuberg an der Mürz (Styria): Cistercian monks
*Neukloster Abbey, now Neukloster Priory, at Wiener Neustadt (Lower Austria): Cistercian monks
*"Nonnberg Abbey, see Salzburg"

O

*Ossiach Abbey (dissolved) at Ossiach (Carinthia): Benedictine monks

P

*Pernegg Abbey (dissolved) at Pernegg (Lower Austria): Premonstratensian canonesses to 1584, thereafter Premonstratensian canons
*Pöllau Priory (dissolved) [now known as Schloss Pöllau] at Pöllau (Styria): Augustinian Canons
*Pulgarn Abbey at Pulgarn (Upper Austria): Order of the Holy Ghost
*Pupping Friary at Pupping (Upper Austria): Franciscan friars

R

*Ranshofen Priory (dissolved) at Ranshofen (Upper Austria): Augustinian Canons
*Rattenberg Priory (dissolved) at Rattenberg (Tyrol): Augustinian Hermits
*Reichersberg Priory at Reichersberg (Upper Austria): Augustinian Canons
*Rein Abbey, known 1950-90 as Rein-Hohenfurt Abbey, at Rein in Eisbach (Styria): Cistercian monks
*Reutte Friary at Reutte (Tyrol): Franciscan friars
*Riederberg Friary ("Sancta Maria in Paradyso") (dissolved) at Ried am Riederberg near Sieghartskirchen (Upper Austria): Franciscan friars (Observants)

S

*"St. Antony's Friary in the Pinzgau, see Salzburg"
*St. Bernhard's Abbey (dissolved) at Sankt Bernhard-Frauenhofen (Lower Austria): Cistercian nuns, later Jesuits
*St. Florian's Priory at Sankt Florian (Upper Austria): Augustinian Canons
*St. George's Abbey on the Längsee (dissolved) at Sankt Georgen am Längsee (Carinthia): Benedictine nuns
*"St. Georgen an der Traisen, Traismauer: see Herzogenburg Abbey"
*St. Georgenberg-Fiecht Abbey at Fiecht in Vomp (Tyrol): Benedictine monks
*St. Joseph's Priory at Maria Roggendorf in Hollabrunn (Lower Austria): Benedictine monks
*St. Koloman's Friary at Stockerau (Lower Austria): Steyler Mission Sisters, formerly Franciscans
*St. Lambrecht's Abbey at Sankt Lambrecht (Styria): Benedictine monks
*"Sancta Maria in Paradyso, see Riederberg"
*St. Paul's Abbey in the Lavanttal at Sankt Paul im Lavanttal (Carinthia): Benedictine monks
*"St. Peter's Archabbey, see Salzburg"
*St. Peter's Priory at Bludenz (Vorarlberg): Augustinian nuns, later Dominican Sisters
*St. Pölten Abbey (dissolved) at Sankt Pölten (Lower Austria): Augustinian Canons; formerly Benedictine monks

*Salzburg:
**Nonnberg Abbey: Benedictine nuns
**St. Antony's Friary in the Pinzgau (dissolved) at Hundsdorf in Bruck an der Glocknerstraße: Franciscan friars
**St. Peter's Archabbey, Salzburg: Benedictine monks
**Franciscan friary, Salzburg
**Capuchin friary, Salzburg
**Pallottine friary, Salzburg
*Säusenstein Abbey (dissolved) at Säusenstein (Lower Austria): Cistercian monks
*Schlägl Abbey at Schlägl (Upper Austria): Premonstratensian canons
*Schlierbach Abbey at Schlierbach (Upper Austria): Cistercian monks
*Schönbühel Friary at Schönbühel-Aggsbach (Lower Austria): Servite friars (vacant since 1980)
*Schwaz Friary at Schwaz (Tyrol): Franciscan friars
*Seckau Abbey at Seckau (Styria): Benedictine monks; formerly Augustinian Canons
*Seitenstetten Abbey at Seitenstetten (Lower Austria): Benedictine monks
*Spital am Pyhrn Priory (dissolved) at Spital am Pyhrn (Upper Austria): hospital run by a community of lay brothers; later a collegiate foundation, afterwards a priory
*Stainz Priory (dissolved) at Stainz (Styria): Augustinian Canons
*Stams Abbey at Stams (Tyrol): Cistercian monks
*Suben Priory (dissolved) at Suben (Upper Austria): Augustinian Canons

T

*Telfs Friary at Telfs (Tyrol): Franciscan friars
*Traunkirchen Abbey (dissolved) at Traunkirchen (Upper Austria) [a re-foundation of an earlier Benedictine monastery, Traunsee Abbey, nearby but not on the same site, possibly located at Altmünster] : Benedictine nuns
*"Traunsee Abbey, see Traunkirchen Abbey"

V

*Vienna:
**Augustinian friary with the Augustinerkirche (Austin Friars)
**Capuchin friary with the Kapuzinergruft and Kapuzinerkirche
**Schottenstift on the Freyung, Vienna: Benedictine monks
*Villach Friary at Villach (Carinthia): Franciscan friars
*Viktring Abbey (dissolved) at Viktring (Carinthia): Cistercian monks
*Volders Priory at Volders near Innsbruck (Tyrol): Servite friars
*Vorau Priory at Vorau (Styria): Augustinian Canons

W

*Waldhausen Priory (dissolved) at Waldhausen im Strudengau (Upper Austria): Augustinian Canons
*Wernberg Convent in Schloss Wernberg, Wernberg (Carinthia): Mission Sisters of the Precious Blood
*Wettingen-Mehrerau Abbey at Bregenz (Vorarlberg) [Mehrerau Abbey was a Benedictine monastery dissolved when this part of Austria was transferred to Bavaria in 1806; after the territory had been returned to Austria, the empty premises were re-settled in 1854 by the Cistercian community of Wettingen Abbey in Switzerland, who had been expelled from their original home by the government of the Canton of Aargau in 1841] : Cistercian monks; formerly Benedictine monks
*Wilhering Abbey at Wilhering (Upper Austria): Cistercian monks
*Wilten Abbey at Wilten in Innsbruck (Tyrol): Premonstratensian canons

Z

*Zwettl Abbey at Zwettl (Lower Austria): Cistercian monks

Formerly in Austria

Province of Bolzano-Bozen, now in Italy

This area, also known as the South Tyrol, became part of Italy after the end of World War I [occupied in 1918, formally annexed in 1920] .

*Brixen:
**St. Elizabeth's Convent, Brixen: Poor Clares
**Brixen Friary: Franciscan friars
*Innichen:
**Innichen Abbey: Benedictine monks to 1141; thereafter men's collegiate foundation ("Herrenstift")
**Innichen Friary: Franciscan friars
*Franciscan friary, Kaltern
*Marienberg Abbey at Burgeis: Benedictine monks
*Muri-Gries Abbey at Gries-Quirein (Gries-San Quirino), Bolzano [the community was expelled by the government of the Canton of Aargau from its original home at Muri Abbey in Switzerland in 1841, and re-settled in 1845 at the deserted monastery in Gries, then in Austria] : Benedictine monks; formerly Augustinian Canons, then a men's collegiate foundation ("Herrenstift")
*Neustift Priory or Abbey at Neustift bei Brixen, Vahrn: Augustinian Canons
*Säben Abbey at Klausen: Benedictine nuns

Notes

ources

* [http://aeiou.iicm.tugraz.at/ AEIOU: Austrian online encyclopedia]