REIN. - Cistercian abbey, near Graz, in Styria, diocese of Seckau, formerly Salzburg.

Daughter of Ebrach, of the line of Morimond, founded by Leopold I, Margrave of Styria, around 1124, and soon mother of other Austrian and Hungarian abbeys. In 1480 the Turks burned the church and convent, which rose again larger and more beautiful, but from 1737 the church was almost completely rebuilt in Baroque forms; the monastic buildings too underwent transformations and reconstructions, so as to form today an imposing complex, with some particularly decorative rooms (the two refectories, the library, the prelature). The monastery has the care of 12 parishes, among which is the sanctuary of Maria Strassengel, near Graz, with a famous Gothic church, with three naves, with three choirs, an octagonal bell tower, marvelously filigreed, and rich sacred furnishings; beside it a kind of castle to protect the access to the R. Valley. The abbey has for centuries maintained a boarding school for boy choristers.

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BIBL.: A. Brackmann, Germania pontificia, I, Berlin 1911, pp. 97-99; E. Tomek, Geschichte der Diözese Sechan, I, Graz 1927, pp. 277-92; Cottineau, II, col. 2453.

Giuseppe Löw

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