Tourist attractions Linz

The buildings of this Cistercian monastery and its church stand upstream from Linz on the south bank of the Danube. Originally Romanesque in style, it was to later become a Rococo masterpiece. On 6 March 1733, the monastic buildings were badly damage..

Built between 1722 and 1732 and occupying an attractive rural setting, Hohenbrunn Castle resembles a Palladian villa, its refined façades boasting many windows and arcades. Restored by the regional authorities in 1963, it has since 1967 housed an i..

Upper Austria’s most important monastery has since the 11C been home to Augustinian canons. The current Baroque-style buildings are the result of remodelling between 1686 and 1751 by Carlo Antonio Carlone and later Jakob Prandtauer. The unmissable Al..

The Church of the Great Seminary was built in the early 18C for the Teutonic Order by Johann Michael Prunner, according to the plans of the famous architect Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt. The exterior is highly ornate and to have succeeded in invest..

This 537m-high hill near Linz offers an extensive view beyond Urfahr, a huge built-up area that has grown on the left bank of the Danube, where the Linz basin spreads out. Visitors can make out the business districts with their shopping avenues and..

This basilica was built on a site of ancient Lauriacum in the late 13C. Its Baroque ribbed vaulting is more recent. The tabernacle, a Pietà and a Madonna are fine Medieval works. Vestiges of a Gallo-Roman temple, a 4C Christian church and a Carolingi..

The main square was already the same size in the 13C. In the centre, the Trinity Column (Dreifaltigkeitssäule), erected by the States of Upper Austria in 1723, commemorates the town's escape from plague (1713), fire (1712) and Turkish invasion (170..

This former cathedral , Linz's largest Baroque church, was designed by Pietro Francesco Carlone and built for the Jesuits in the 17C. The simple façade is in contrast to the interior where stuccowork, pink-marble columns, the finely-worked pulpit an..

The Gothic church, founded by the Minorite Brothers in the 13C, was remodelled in the Rococo style in the 18C. The altarpiece on the high altar by Bartolomeo Altomonte shows the Annunciation, while the altarpieces on the six side altars were executed..

This palace, built in the second half of the 16C, houses the seat of the provincial government. The arcaded courtyard has a central fountain whose base is adorned with seven figures representing the planets, thus recalling that the great astronomer a..

The castle, a former residence of Emperor Friedrich III, dates from the late 15C. On the first floor, it houses the Schlossmuseum , which displays the Upper Austria provincial museum's art collections from the Middle Ages to the Rococo era, as well ..

This communications museum is entirely devoted to digital media. The whole centre is interactive, with the latest in technology from a 3-D area and the Internet server to computer simulation and a Cyber City.

The "Nordico" name dates back to 1675, when the Jesuits set up a house here for the education of young people from northern Europe. This big three-storey building was originally built for Kremsmünster Abbey and today houses the municipal mu..

The new cathedral , built from 1862 to 1924, is the largest church in Austria and can host a congregation of 20 000 people. The only constraint imposed on the architect Vinzenz Statz was symbolic: that the spire should not be taller than that of St ..

Excavations have found ancient origins for this ordinary-looking chapel with a Gothic chancel. The present building is a remodelled Palatine hall of a royal Carolingian residence, which itself was built on Roman ruins in the 8C.

About 200 000 prisoners lived in the concentration camp, or its 49 subsidiary camps, and over 100 000 of them died. The huts and torture rooms evoke the suffering and death that reigned here from 1938 to 5 May 1945. Outside the heavy and oppressive e..

The fortifications, built in 1193, were financed by the ransom money paid to Austria by England for the release of Richard the Lionheart from the Dürnstein fortress jail. They are well preserved with ramparts, moats and six defensive towers, includin..

The late-Gothic and Renaissance 60-m high belfry standing in the centre of the square is the town's landmark. In 1564, Enns' citizens built it to house bells and as a watchtower. It is adorned with the Imperial eagle and Habsburg coat of arms. A ma..

Its imposing town houses are all mainly Gothic in style and often feature late-Gothic or Renaissance arcaded inner courtyards. Those lining the Hauptplatz, as well as n° 5 in Mauthausnerstrasse and n° 4 or 20 in Linzerstrasse have magnificent façades..

This is one of the oldest Mendicant Order churches in Austria. It was built by the Franciscans, still called Minorite Brothers, in 1276, which accounts for its most sober style, except for the beautifully-carved aisle keystones. The adjacent Wallsee..