frescoes - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 1967 - 2 Shilling

The Lambach Benedictine Abbey is today the result of the construction of outstanding abbots of the 17th and 18th centuries. Earlier buildings were included in the Baroque style and have been preserved. In the 15th century, a part of the Romanesque nave was still present in the Gothic building period and unchanged, at least in appearance. The proof is provided by the Lambacher Rotelbuch, which was created before the Baroque era. From the Romanesque first construction phase of the Benedictine monastery, the two west towers are still preserved in today's church building up to a height of about 20 meters. What lies above this is the Baroque tower elevation from 1639. In these two towers and the connection building in between, at a height of about 4.90 meters above the ground level, there was a room about five meters high, closed off by three vaults. Here the Lambacher monastery archivist Father Pius Schmieder found medieval frescoes under the whitewashed tales in 1868 on the vaults. A ten years' work, which was one of the most extensive and difficult restorations of Romanesque frescoes in Austria, has completed a considerably larger and better preserved pigment on the walls. On the stamp is a representation of Christ.