Bridge builders! – The Zwettl monastery landscape and its bridges

On the occasion of the "European Heritage Days", Dr. Andreas Gamerith, Zwettl Abbey Archive, and Elisabeth Moll, MBA, Zwettl Town Archive, shed light on Zwettl's historical bridges: from the Romanesque Bridge, probably the oldest technical structure in Austria, to the bridges of the early 20th century, which used state-of-the-art innovations. The current structural measures on

The foundation of monasteries in the Middle Ages using the example of Zwettl Abbey

In his lecture, Franz Ettmayer also describes the influence of territorial and ecclesiastical personalities on the fate of our country. After the political order of Charlemagne, the Carolingian Empire began to disintegrate. Before and after the turn of the millennium, political reorganization began between the Enns and the Vienna Woods and north of the Danube.

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