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when it received a new Düsseldorf, Bruno Schmitz. The
interior and further chapels. The museum was named Francisco-
presbytery includes the tomb- Carolinum Museum in honour
stone of Emperor Friedrich III, of Archduke Francis Karl.
who resided in Linz for a while. Originally it was meant to house
The urn containing his heart is the collection of the Museum
concealed behind a marble slab Society of Upper Austria,
in the church wall to the established in 1833 by Anton
right of the altar. In the Ritter von Spaun. Today, the
eastern end of the south museum shows mainly modern
nave is the chapel of St John Austrian art, with a particular
of Nepomuk. Its lovely emphasis on artists from Upper
Baroque interior is decorated Austria. It also holds a collection
with frescoes and an altar of works by the renowned
by Bartolomeo Altomonte. Bohemian illustrator, Alfred
St John of Nepomuk was Kubin, and presents exhibitions
one of the most revered of its natural history treasures or
saints in the Austrian empire. relating to the province’s past.
Many towns erected
The towers of Alter Dom in Domgasse statues to him, and the E Stadtmuseum Nordico
Stadtpfarrkirche in Linz Dametzstrasse 23. Tel (0732) 7070-
R Alter Dom houses two of these. In the 1912. Open 10am–6pm Tue–Sun
Domgasse 3. Tel (0732) 770866-0. external chapel by the presbytery (to 9pm Thu). & ∑ nordico.at
Open 7:30am–6:30pm daily. is a figure, probably created by In 1675, this 17th-century
Thanks to reforms, the capital Georg Raphael Donner. The Baroque complex was the
of the archbishopric of Upper chapel’s architecture and dome home of the college known as
Austria was established at Linz, shape are the work of another “Nordisches Stift”, which had
and in 1785 the former Jesuit Austrian master of the Baroque, as its aim the education of young
church was chosen as the Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt. boys from nordic countries –
cathedral. Ignatiuskirche, the hence the name – and their
church of St Ignatius, was built E Landesmuseum transfor mation into good
in the second half of the Museumstrasse 14. Tel (0732) 7720- Catholics. Today, this imposing
17th century to designs by Pietro 52200. Open 9am–6pm Tue, Wed & building, now owned by the
Francesco Carlone, and today Fri, 9am–9pm Thu, 10am–5pm Sat, council, houses the Nordico Town
its green façade and onion- Sun & hols. & Museum, with its collection of
dome–topped twin towers are The Landesmuseum building objects relating to the history of
distinctive features in the town is reminiscent of the Viennese Linz from ancient times onwards,
panorama. The simple, modest houses along Ringstrasse, which including a model of the town
elevation of the church conceals is hardly surprising since they from 1740. The top floor is given
a beguiling Baroque interior. The were built at the same time and over to temporary exhibitions,
wide main nave has three side designed in the same spirit of mainly of Modern art.
chapels on each side. Particularly historicism. The museum’s
fascinating are the beautifully architect was a German from R Seminarkirche
engraved stalls in the presbytery, Harrachstrasse 7.
where local artists carved the Tel (0732) 771205.
figures of dwarfs and monsters Open 7am–5pm daily.
peeping out from behind the The former Deutsch-
backrests and armrests. ordenkirche (church of
From 1856 until 1868 the the Teutonic Order) is
composer Anton Bruckner was now a seminary church.
the cathedral’s organist. The Artistically, this is the
present organ, by the famous most valuable historic
master Krismann, was altered church building in Linz.
according to Bruckner’s It was built in the early
own instructions. 18th century, to a design
by Johann Lukas
R Stadtpfarrkirche Hildebrandt. Its beautiful
Pfarrplatz 4. Tel (0732) 776120. Baroque façade is topped
The parish church of the with the decorative
Assumption of the Virgin Mary coats of arms of the
(Mariä Himmelfahrt) was built in Harrach family. The
the 13th century as a triple-nave tower, crowned with
basilica with Gothic presbytery, a distinctive flattened
and altered in the 17th century, Illumination in a Psalter, Landesmuseum dome, is surrounded by
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