Redemptorist monastery Eggenburg

In 1451, St. John Capistran visited Eggenburg. The enthusiastic citizens then founded a Franciscan monastery in 1460.

The church was consecrated in 1466 and lavishly decorated with works of art in the Baroque period.

In 1786, the monastery was dissolved by Emperor Joseph II and subsequently converted into a calico factory.
The great town fire in 1808, which reduced 203 houses to rubble, also left this building in ruins.

It was not until 1833 that it was rebuilt by the Redemptorists.