Friday 18. May 2012

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1000 years ago...

"All believing Christians both the now living and those in the future sholud know that my wife called Wichburg, widow oft he Count Otwin of blessen memory, has reconstruceted a church oft he martyr Saint George on her property and has established there a convent upon approval by her sons…"

 

With these words the foundation oft he oldest still inhabited convent in Carinthia is put on record. Hildpurg, the doughter oft he couple and nun in the Benedictine abbey Nonnberg in Salzburg was ordained as the first abbedd. Together with Hildpurg some othernuns had comefrom Nonnberg to Carinthia.  Count Otwin and his wife were entombed and revered in the convent´s crypt.

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