Melk Abbey
The Melk Abbey is located some 100 km West of Vienna on a rocky hill above the Danube marking the Western end of the Wachau, a unique river landscape along the Danube. The abbey was founded as early as 1089 and has been a centre of Christian scholarship ever since. Its monastic library is of worldwide fame and its scriptorium has had enormous influence during the medieval ages. In the early eighteenth century the abbey was rebuild as a Baroque castle designed by famous Austrian architect Jakob Prandtauer.