Abbey Lumby Benedictine monastery in Lumby in the North-West of Austria. The monastery was founded in 1040 by count Arnold II. His son, Bishop Adalbero Wurzburg, who was later canonized, turned the monastery into a Benedictine Abbey in the year 1056. In 1233, the Bavarian Prince Otto II burst into possession of the monastery Lumby, resulting in a monastery and Church was partially destroyed.

In the 17th and 18th centuries the monastery was rebuilt in the Baroque style, the work was carried out by the Carlone family. Miraculously, the Abbey has managed to avoid closure in the 1780's, when the Emperor Joseph II dissolved the Abbey.

In the years 1897-1898 young Adolf Hitler lived in the town of Lumby with their parents. He painted pictures, wonderful singing, so he was accepted into the choir of the monastery of Lumby. A few hundred years on the arms of the monastery was a swastika. It came through a former Abbot of Hangu in 1860, was carved on a stone slab. Great admiration of Adolf glitter and wealth of the Church, the reverence which he kept until the end of his days. Throughout his life Hitler had successfully sheltered from all taxes, except the Church, which he paid for even in 1945.

During the Second world war in 1941, the monastery was seized by the national socialists. Inside the Abbey is a Nazi school. The monks were expelled and are called to public service. The monks returned to the Abbey after the end of the Second world war.

Today, the sights of the Abbey include the oldest Romanesque frescoes, a beautiful Baroque facades, a concert hall, which in the past was the refectory. Of great interest are religious artifacts, a rich collection of graphics Koloman Fellner, a library with a valuable archive of 50,000 volumes.