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10 Euros Saint Paul's Abbey, Lavanttal

Issuer Austrian Mint
Year 2007
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Engraver(s) Obverse: Thomas Pesendorfer
Reverse: Herbert Wähner
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Reverse description A frontal elevation of the Romanesque south portal of the collegiate church of St. Paul im Lavanttal fills the field, engraved by Herbert Wähner with meticulous architectural detail. The portal features a large rounded archivolt supported by flanking columns with carved capitals, enclosing ornate double doors surmounted by a sculpted tympanum depicting a figural relief. Arched windows with decorative surrounds flank the portal on either side, and low shrubbery is rendered along the base. The composition is strictly symmetrical, emphasizing the monumental character of the Romanesque facade.
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St. Paul's Abbey in Lavanttal, Carinthia, holds one of the most significant Romanesque church buildings in Austria, but its greater claim to scholarly attention is the library and archive — among the richest monastic collections in Central Europe, including manuscripts and documents dating to the abbey's Benedictine founding in 1091 under the patronage of the Sponheim dynasty. The abbey survived Josephinism, the wave of monastery dissolutions ordered by Emperor Joseph II in the 1780s, partly because it successfully argued the value of its holdings.

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