St Pölten - Institute of the English Ladies

(Local Name: Institut der Englischen Frauen) Following Linzer Strasse, which runs southwestward from Riemerplatz in St Pölten, we reach the Institute of the English Ladies (Institut der Englischen Frauen, a convent founded by Mary Ward in 1609), a sumptuous Baroque building of 1715-69. One of the well known pupils there was Paula von Preradovicà, who wrote the words of the Austrian National Anthem.