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Braunau on the Inn (1439–92), with a tower 300 feet high. A work of sculpture celebrated in the history of art is the high altar at St. Wolfgang carved by Michael Pacher in
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style between 1669 and 1682. There are several old collegiate churches (St. Florian, KremsmĂĽnster, Mondsee, Lambach, Garsten, Reichersberg, Wilhering, etc.), originally built in the
Romanesque period and nearly all rebuilt in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the Baroque style.
472:, held at Linz in 1850, also strengthened the Church in the diocese. A great development of religious life in the diocese resulted from the restored liberties of the Church. Much of the credit for this growth is due to the vigorous and unwearied labours of the fifth bishop, the
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By an agreement of 4 July 1784, the confiscation of all the properties and rights belonging to the
Diocese of Passau in Austria was annulled, and the tithes and revenues were restored to it.
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Ordinariate for Byzantine-rite Catholics in Austria
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