Basilika und ehem. Benediktinerkloster Klein-Mariazell
Austria
Klein-Mariazell sits in a side valley off the Triesting, in the market town of Altenmarkt an der Triesting in Lower Austria, and the first thing to grasp is that the name on the sign covers two very different things. The basilica is still here. The Benedictine monastery that built it largely is not. It was dissolved in 1782, its main building was mostly pulled down in 1964, and what survives of the old fabric is now a protected monument. You are standing at a place where religious life stopped for more than two centuries and has only recently started again.
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