New provost for St. Florian Abbey: Challenges and traditions!

New provost for St. Florian Abbey: Challenges and traditions!

St. Pölten, Österreich - The change at the top of the St. Florian Abbey has been completed: Andreas Sonnleitner takes over the management of Johann Holzinger, who steered the fortunes of the pen for two decades. Sonnleitner, an internationally sought -after organist and specialist for the life's work of Anton Bruckner, has extensive experience, which he has proven in several parishes since 1997 and his pastoral work. The challenges that are waiting for him are considerable: young problems and urgent structural and financial affairs are in the room, while the historic monastery, one of the greatest monasteries in Austria, opens its gates, as reported.

There are also interesting news about the centuries -long traditions in the St. Pölten Abbey. The former Benedictine monastery, which was founded around 800 and represents the oldest monastery in Lower Austria, has an eventful history. Like Wikipedia illustrated, Emperor Joseph II 1784 led to the dissolution of the abbey, which was located in the following year to a seat of the newly founded Roman-Katholische Diocese in St. Pölten was. The place, once shaped by the colonization of the Romans, survived several historical crises, which for a long time questioned its financial and cultural stability. The transfer of the Hippolyt monastery to a Augustiner choir monster in the 11th century shows how complex the development of the monastery was and how it had an important spiritual and social influence for centuries.

The pen not only played an important role in religious life, but also repeatedly drawn attention to itself with architectural redesign. The heyday under Provost Johannes Fünfleutner in the 17th century was characterized by new buildings and the restoration after destruction. This extensive history represents an impressive context that flows into today's challenges to the new management level.