At the northern foot of the Wienerwald, 12km/7.5mi north of Vienna, lies Klosterneuburg, separated from the Danube by a broad belt of meadowland and famous for its Augustinian abbey. The extensive abbey complex on a hill above the Danube owes its existence to a gift made by the Babenberg Margrave Leopold III, the Saint, in the 12th century. In 17
30 the Emperor Charles VI started to build a new abbey, but work came to a standstill in 1755, and it was not until 1842 that it was completed, albeit on a reduced scale.