The Alumnatsgarten in St. Polten is the surviving garden of a Franciscan monastery dissolved under Joseph II in the 1780s, now a public park in the city center. Free access; 5 minutes from Rathausplatz. St. Polten is 40 minutes from Vienna Westbahnhof by train.
monastery in St. Pölten
Alumnatsgarten
The Alumnatsgarten in St. Polten is the surviving garden of the former Franciscan monastery that stood on this site before the monastery was dissolved under Emperor Joseph II's secularization edicts of the 1780s.
- Type
- monastery
- Destination
- St. Pölten
- Cost
- Free to visit
- Address
- 3100 Sankt Poelten
- Coordinates
- 48.2039, 15.6280