Sankt Florian

Sankt Florian is a town in Upper Austria, Austria. It is 10 miles (16 km) from Linz, with a population of 5,500 and an elevation of 296 meters above sea level.

St. Florian's Priory and basilica

The town of Sankt Florian is the home of St. Florian's Priory a community of Canons Regular, named after Saint Florian, and one of the oldest operational monasteries in the world following the Rule of St. Augustine. The composer Anton Bruckner (1824–96), who was a choirboy and later organist here, is buried beneath the organ inside the monastic church, which was elevated to the rank of basilica minor in 1999.

St. Florianer Sängerknaben

St. Florian's is also known for its boys' choir (St. Florianer Sängerknaben), founded almost 1,000 years ago in 1071. This choir has been a traditional part of the monastery's worship from its beginning and has contributed significantly to the identity of the town. It has particular responsibility for providing excellence in sacred music for the religious community, but also now undertakes successful international concert tours and television appearances, and has a busy recording schedule.

Museums

Sankt Florian has a fire fighting museum (Historisches Feuerwehrzeughaus),^[2] a hunting museum (Jagdmuseum Schloss Hohenbrunn) and a museum of farming and local history (Sumerauerhof).

Notes

↑ Statistik Austria - Bevölkerung zu Jahres- und Quartalsanfang, 2013-01-01.
↑ situated in a part of the monastic buildings

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