Cistercian Abbey Wilhering OCist

Located on the Danube, Wilhering Abbey (lat. Abbatia B. M. V. de Hilaria) is a Cistercian abbey founded in 1146 in the market town of Wilhering in Upper Austria. The collegiate church, built between 1733 and 1751, was influenced by the Bavarian Rococo style and is considered the most important Rococo sacred building in Austria.

Wilhering Abbey was not spared from the reforms of Emperor Joseph II. In order to avoid the closure of the collegiate church, it was converted into Wilhering parish church in 1784.

The Wilhering Abbey School, where young conventuals had received elementary education since the 16th century, was expanded into a boys' choir before 1787. From 1895, Abbot Theobald Grasböck gradually turned it into a grammar school with a boarding school. In 1955, a west wing was added to the abbey building to expand the grammar school.