Eberndorf Abbey

Abbey of Eberndorf
Stift Eberndorf
Southern entrance to the courtyard of the Abbey Church in Eberndorf (2007)
Abbey of Eberndorf Location of Eberndorf Abbey in Austria
General information
Town or city	Eberndorf, Carinthia
Country	Austria
Coordinates	46°35′32″N 14°38′26″E / 46.59222°N 14.64056°E / 46.59222; 14.64056Coordinates: 46°35′32″N 14°38′26″E / 46.59222°N 14.64056°E / 46.59222; 14.64056

The former Augustinian "choral" Abbey of Eberndorf is located in a small bilingual market town half an hour to the east of Klagenfurt in Carinthia (Austria).

Following several changes in ownership it has since 1809 been part of the endowment of Saint Paul's Abbey, Lavanttal nearby. It currently houses Eberndorf's council office and kindergarten.

The Friulian Count Kazelin and his countess, who were childless, gifted a small "Church of Our Lady" and their worldly goods to endow a Monastery at (what subsequently became) Eberndorf in approximately 1100.Patriarch Ulrich I () of Aquileia confirms the gifting of the lands and associated rights in a document of 1106. The bodies of the benefactors were transferred to Eberndorf and a large church was constructed. The consecration of the church was carried out by Bishop Riwin of Concordia. The patriarch also endowed the monastery with assets in the surrounding area. Around the middle of the twelfth century Patriarch Pellegrinus I of Aquileia enlarged Eberndorf, which now, as an "Augustiner-Chorherren-Stift", became home to an Augustinian choir.

The monastery was located close to the frontier that separated Carinthia from Styria (to the south and east), and in the years that followed there were frequent clashes with bailiffs employed by the Margraves of Styria, and with their successors, the Babenbergs. This ended with the transfer of the bailiffs involved to the Counts of Carinthia.