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KLOSTERNEUBURG , a town of Austria, in Lower Austria, 5z m. N.W. of Vienna by rail. Pop. (1goo) , 11,595. It is situated on the right bank of the Danube, at the foot of the Kahlenberg, and is divided by a small stream into an upper and a lower town. As an important pioneer
academy
On a hill rising directly from the banks of the Danube stand the magnificent buildings (erected 1730-1834) of the Augustine canonry, founded in I Io6 by Margrave Leopold the Holy. This foundation is the oldest and richest of the kind in Austria; itowns much of the land upon which the north-western suburbs of Vienna stand. Among the points of interest
Leopold 's tomb and the altar of Verdun, dating from the 12th century, the treasury and relic-chamber, the library with 30,000 volumes and many MSS., the picture gallery, the collection of coins, the theological hall
Heidelberg
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