Place:Melk, Niederösterreich, Austria

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NameMelk
Alt namesMedilikesource: Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 587
Mölksource: BHA, Authority file (2003-)
Mölksource: Wikipedia
Namaresource: Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 587
TypeDistrict
Coordinates48.227°N 15.344°E
Located inNiederösterreich, Austria
Contained Places
Cemetery
Melk Abbey
Municipality
Dunkelsteinerwald
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Melk (; older spelling: ) is a city of Austria, in the federal state of Lower Austria, next to the Wachau valley along the Danube. Melk has a population of 5,257 (as of 2012). It is best known as the site of a massive baroque Benedictine monastery named Melk Abbey.

The town is first mentioned as in 831 in a donation of Louis the German; the name is from a Slavic word for 'border.' The area around Melk was given to Leopold I, Margrave of Austria, in the year 976 to serve as a buffer between the Magyars to east and Bavaria to the west. In 996 mention was first made of an area known as , which is the origin of the word (German for Austria). The bluff which holds the current monastery held a Babenberger castle until the site was given to Benedictine monks from nearby Lambach by Leopold II, in 1089. Melk received market rights in 1227 and became a municipality in 1898. In a very small area, Melk presents a great deal of architectural variety from many centuries.

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