800 years - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 2002 - 203 Euro Cent

Babenberger Duke Leopold VI, the Glorious, founded a Cistercian monastery in 1202 on a land bought by the Lords of Lilienfeld and endowed it with rich landed property, which extends in the west to the Ötscher. 4 years later, monks from Heiligenkreuz settled in this monastery. Finally, in 1230 Archbishop Eberhard II consecrated Salzburg monastery and church. The donor, who died in Italy in the same year, was buried in a sarcophagus in front of the high altar. After a temporary decline, Abbot Petrus Krottenthaler restored the monastery to prosperity and surrounded it in 1453 with walls that even the Turks could defy. As a result, much more was preserved from the earliest times than elsewhere, which came in very handy for the "Cisto" exhibition on the occasion of the 800th anniversary under the motto "to draw on abundance - restriction to the core". The tension between abundance of supply and fulfilled life requires every modern person daily new decisions to restrict. In other words, you could say: Discover the monk in you! "Cisto" touched with the expressiveness of the 800-year-old monastery, with its stones, the Romanesque-Gothic building, its history, with music, art and the combination of stone, light, color, music and architecture. "Cisto" departed from the beaten path of the conventional. The decision to restrict only makes a work of art, but it also saves us from excessive demands and chaos.