Charming Durnstein on the Danube
by Kirsten Giving
Title
Charming Durnstein on the Danube
Artist
Kirsten Giving
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Photograph - Photo
Description
The beautiful Durnstein Abbey, along the Danube River in Austria, as seen from the river. It started in 1372 when Elizabeth von Kuenring began a chapel within her castle walls. She donated one half of her former family home to the Augustinian Canons of Wittingau, in Bohemia, to be used as a Monastery. The Cloister and Monastery was consecrated in 1410.
In 1710, under the leadership of the new Prevost, the development of the present complex, began. He called on the finest artisans to create buildings in the new, Baroque style. The blue and white tower represents the resurrection and overcoming of suffering iin a freer, celestial world, thus the colors of blue and white.( On the day I took the picture, the blue and white echoes the blue and the white of the sky and the clouds!)
In 1745 the Church became the Parish Church of Durnstein. In the late 1980s extensive preservation work was done, but it is an ongoing process to maintain the buildings. (Information is from the Durnstein Abbey website.)
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February 28th, 2012
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