Stift Admont

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The town of Adermont is located in the Ens valley below the Austrian Alps, and we cross the mountain to see the 11th century Adermont Benedictine Monastery, which was once the center of the transmission of medieval culture. First came the monastery's towering Gothic church spire. In 1865, there was a fire in Adermont, and now the church is rebuilt after 1866. The monastery covers a large area and has many tall ancient trees in the garden. The most brilliant of the Adermont monastery is the Abbey Library, which was built in the second half of the eighteenth century as a model of the Rococo style. The seventy-meter-long main hall, with its dome decorated with exquisite murals, is a statue erected in the hall that symbolizes all the morals of Catholicism, most famous of which are the Catholic “four things”: death, final judgment, heaven and hell. The library contains 1400 hand-copied rare books and 150,000 volumes, although the collection is extremely precious, but for visitors, the beautiful decoration seems more obsessive, the world's most beautiful and largest monastery library. The classical ornate library is stunning as it passes through the long corridor and opens the humble gate! The day we went was the Monastery Fire Memorial Day, everyone was free of tickets to visit, and tourists with cameras were charged for photography as usual. Please note that flash lights are not allowed when taking pictures.