The cloisters

Among the most important in Tyrol

In the Middle Ages the Neustift cloisters served as a roofed corridor connecting the abbey church, chapter hall, dining hall and dormitory. But they are so much more than this. The walls and vault were decorated in the 14th and 15th centuries with Gothic frescoes, not all of which, however, have been preserved. There was a simple reason for this: when the abbey church was being redesigned in the Baroque style, gravestones were removed from the interior and set in the cloister walls. A further feature of the cloisters is a contemporary work of art dating from 1992: a fountain with a bronze statue of the abbey’s founder Hartmann by Friedrich Gurschler.