Aggsbach Dorf - Servite Monastery

The village of Aggsbach Dorf (250m/820ft) is on the right bank of the Danube.

From here an excursion can be made up the Aggsbach valley to the Servite monastery of Maria Langegg (550m/1,805ft). In this former Carthusian monastery 2.5km/1.5mi east of the village (1380-1782), there remain parts of the Gothic cloister and the abbot's lodging (1592), together with a fine church.

Aggsbach is 5km/3mi from Schloss Schönbühel in the Wachau.