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Altmann, Heiliger
© Copyright Der heilige Altmann erscheint dem Hartmann von St. Blasien und zeigt ihm Göttweig (Saint Altmann appears to Hartmann of St. Blasien and shows him Göttweig). Painting by M. J. Schmidt, 1773 (Göttweig Abbey, Lower Austria). Altmann, Saint, feast day August 8, b. Westphalia (Germany), around 1015, d. Zeiselmauer (Lower Austria), Aug. 8, 1091, Bishop of Passau from 1065. Supported Pope Gregory VII in the investiture controversy, established an abbey of Augustinian canons at Göttweig before 1083, reformed the monasteries of St. Florian and St. Pölten, supported Lambach and other Benedictine monasteries. Had many churches built of stone. Literature: C. Tropper, in: 900 Jahre Göttweig, exhibition catalogue, Göttweig 1983.
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