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Home / Austria / Melk - Danube River Cruise 197
Always a stop on a Danube river cruise, Melk's Benedictine monastery is situated on an isolated rock commanding the Danube, and is the largest in Austria. In its time and day it was the most important work of sacral Baroque in Europe. The monastery has a magnificent library with a collection of some 100,000 precious books and manuscripts.
!["..in whose splendour the glory of the cross is clear"
[Abbey Church - Melk Benedictine Abbey - Austria]](../../_data/i/galleries/Austria/Melk/IMG_6249-2s.jpg)
"..in whose splendour the glory of the cross is clear" [Abbey Church - Melk Benedictine Abbey - Austria]
'MS Poetry' moored in Melk
'MS Poetry' moored in the Wachau Valley
'The City on the Mountain' tells of the Monte Cassino Monastery (H)
.. on the other hand by the victors laurels over the monk, who has achieved spiritual fulfillment, in the nave fresco
1702 transformation of this fortification into a baroque sanctuary (H)
17th c. globe of the world. Australia is missing continent and California is on an island
A busy Melk town square
A high point of the baroque monastery is the Abbey church
A re-usable coffin - not one of the successful ideas of Joseph II
Abbey Church
Abbey church plaque (H)
Abbot Dietmayr's vestment
Abbot Dietmayr's vestment
Abbot Dietmayr's vestment