The Admont Abbey is a Benedictine monastery on the Enns river in the town of Admont is the oldest monastery in Styria. The Abbey is famous for its world's largest monastery library.

The Admont Abbey was founded in 1074 by Archbishop Gebhard of Salzburg. The monastery flourished in the middle ages, the Abbot Engelbert (1297-1327) was a renowned scholar and author of many scientific papers. Since the founding of the Abbey of Admont was not only a religious center but also educational. Especially monks were strong in the natural Sciences and history.

In 1774 architect Josef Heuber built a new hall for the library (length 70 meters, width – 14 meters and a ceiling height of 13 meters). In the new hall moved about 200 thousand books, among them more than 1000 rare manuscripts of the middle ages, rare ornaments and engravings.

In the 17th and 18th centuries the Abbey has reached the highest point of creative success thanks to the work of the world famous Church of the embroiderer Brother Benno Khan and sculptor Joseph Stammel (1695-1765).

April 27, 1865 a fire destroyed almost the entire monastery. While the monastic archives were burned, the library was saved. Reconstruction began the following year, and has not yet been fully completed by 1890.

The economic crises of the 1930s, forced the Abbey to sell many of its treasures of art, in the period of national socialist government, the monastery was dissolved and the monks were evicted. The monks were able to return in 1946, and today the monastery is a thriving community of Benedictine monks.