Kremsmunster Tourist Attractions

About 1.5km/1mi east of Kremsmünster stands Schloss Kremsegg, which houses a motor vehicle museum. There are over 100 vehicles (cars and motorcycles) displayed on four floors, including veteran cars such as a 1910 Mercedes Benz Chauffeur Limousine and a 1913 Audi C 14/35.

Bad Hall (388m/1,273ft; pop. 5,000), southeast of Kremsmünster, is a spa with a brine spring containing iodine and bromine; recommended for heart and vascular complaints, it is one of the strongest of its kind in Europe. It has a treatment complex and indoor thermal pool, and is the headquarters of the Paracelus Institute for Iodine Research (1950). Of note are the castle (1645) and the Late Classical town hall; there is also a spa park.

South of Kremsmünster, off the main road, lies the village of Schlierbach (407m/1,335ft; pop. 2,500), with a Cistercian abbey founded in 1355. The church was rebuilt by P. F. and C. A. Carlone in the late 17th C. in splendid Baroque style, with a sumptuous interior.

To the north of Kremsmünster extends the beautiful and interesting Krems valley. Near Kematen stands Schloss Weyer (13th-14th C.). Neuhofen was the birthplace in 1606 of Georg von Derfflinger, a peasant's son who rose to become a field-marshal in the Brandenburg service (d. 1695). Neuhof is now a popular holiday center. West of the valley, near the motorway, lies Pucking; its St Leonard's Church (15th and 18th C.) has some fine old frescos. Ansfelden, 4km/2.5mi northeast by the motorway, was the birthplace of the composer Anton Bruckner (1824-96). He was cathedral organist in Linz from 1856 and later professor of music at the Vienna Conservatory.