Kremsmünsterer Stiftshaus

The mighty, representative Renaissance building with a symmetrical five-axis main facade and two lateral, onion-domed round bay windows extending to the roof in the Old Town, stretches with a narrow, long inner courtyard with a northern and southern side wing to a four-axis rear building set back to the south on Tummelplatz. The mighty round-arched Renaissance rusticated portal on the main facade from around 1580 with a stepped cornice features a monumental Kremsmünster Abbey coat of arms from 1710. The main house has a barrel-vaulted central corridor the width of the courtyard and a three-flight staircase with groin-vaulted landings. The rooms are partly barrel-vaulted, partly with lunettes, and groin-vaulted. In the corridor and in the ground floor rooms are round and angular stucco frame fields. In a round-arched wall niche in the stairwell is a figure of St. John of Nepomuk from the mid-18th century. There are baroque grilles. The floors are partly laid with Kehlheim slabs. Noteworthy on the upper floor is a Renaissance plank ceiling with a tie beam with rope staff and chip carving decoration from the 2nd half of the 16th century, which was transferred here from the former Hagen Castle in the 1980s. In the courtyard wing, a chapel was presumably set up on the second upper floor in the 18th century as a square room with a cloister vault. Since 1986, a memorial room to Emperor Frederick III has been established in the chapel.