Saint George's Abbey

St. George's Abbey is a monastic complex in the village of Sankt Georgen am Längsee, Carinthia, Austria. It celebrated its 1,000th anniversary in 2003.The convent was founded between 1002 and 1008 by the Countess Wichburg, the wife of Count Ottwin von Sonnenburg of Pustertal.Wichbirg was the sister of the Archbishop Hartwig.The founder's daughter Hildpurg, a nun in the Nonnberg Benedictine abbey in Salzburg, was blessed as the first abbess, and brought the first nuns with her.Count Ottwin and Countess Wichburg were entombed in the crypt of the convent.In the 12th century the convent was reformed. It was placed under the direction of the abbot Wolford of Admont Abbey in 1122.From the 1170s the convent returned to the suzerainty of Salzburg.There is a record of Ulrich II, Duke of Carinthia making a donation to the monastery on 31 March 1199.

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