melk abbey museum Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/melk-abbey-museum Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:16:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 Melk Abbey MONASTERY MELK, AUSTRIA http://travelsfinders.com/melk-abbey-monastery-melk-austria.html http://travelsfinders.com/melk-abbey-monastery-melk-austria.html#respond Thu, 08 Sep 2016 13:05:55 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=220863 JAKOB PRANDTAUER From its elevated position on a rocky outcrop the great Benedictine abbey of Melk towers over the Danube in Lower Austria. Founded in the 11th century, it became renowned as a center of faith and learning, but by 1700 its buildings were no longer fit for the purpose, and the dynamic abbot, Berthold Dietmayr, commissioned the architect Jakob Prandtauer to redesign it. Prandtauer specialized in the baroque style, and he created a new church, accommodation, library, and other structures that transformed Melk into one of the largest and most elaborate baroque buildings in the world. Baroque architecture developed

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