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The continuing difficulties faced by the abbey were reflected in the depleted state of its library, which in 1599 contained only 110 printed books and 150 manuscripts. However, in the relative prosperity of the period from the mid-17th century onwards, the library grew, acquiring among other things
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from Vienna took up residence. The sisters turned the monastery into an academy for young women. The parish church served as the convent chapel. No new novices entered the community however after about 1950, and the convent was eventually closed in 1977.
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Among the curiosities of the abbey was a set of
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It was founded in the early 12th century, shortly after the foundation of
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Since the dissolution the parochial duties had been carried out by parish priests, but from 1950 were undertaken by the
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wrote, in discussing the ecclesiastical situation in the archduchy of Upper and Lower
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style, principally associated at Gleink with Abbot Rupert II Freysauf von
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