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MonasteryTraunkirchen
Traunkirchen Abbey
Traunkirchen Monastery is a former Benedictine (OSB) monastery in Traunkirchen, Upper Austria.
The monastery was founded around 1020 by Count Wilhelm von Raschenberg-Reichenhall, who was related to the family of the Margraves of Steyr and that of the Eppensteiners, and was settled by nuns from Nonnberg Abbey in Salzburg. It was the oldest women's monastery in the Upper Austria region.
The monastery owned, among other things, estates in Leobengau. In 1448, Abbess Barbara I sold her rights and the Salvator Chapel in Trofaiach in Styria to King Frederick III (1440-1493).
The Benedictine nuns' area of care extended to Aussee: Traunkirchen was the mother parish in 1332 for the parishes of Aussee, Hallstatt, Goisern (Ischl only became a parish in 1554), and later also for Pinsdorf and Nussdorf.
In 1573, the monastery was dissolved and in 1621, along with the Salzkammergut parishes, it was handed over to the newly founded Jesuit College in Passau as mensa property.
In 1778, the monastery church became a parish church.
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