Floorplan and Crypt of Gurk Cathedral

Gurk Abbey was a short-lived Benedictine double monastery in Gurk, Austria. This article concerns Roman Catholic Order of Saint Benedict see also Benedictine Confederation and Benedictine. A double monastery is an institution combining a separate Monastery for Monks and an Abbey for Nuns Examples include Coldingham Monastery Gurk (Krka is an Austrian market Town and former episcopal see in the District of Sankt Veit an der Glan, Carinthia. Austria (Österreich ( officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich

It was founded in 1043 by Saint Hemma of Gurk but was dissolved in 1072 by her executor, Blessed Gebhard, Archbishop of Salzburg, who used the assets so realised to found Gurk Cathedral and the Diocese of Gurk-Klagenfurt. Hemma of Gurk (sometimes Emma) (c 980 – 27 June 1045) is a saint and a founder of religious houses in Austria. Blessed Gebhard of Salzburg, also occasionally known as Gebhard of Helfenstein (estimated date of birth about 1010 died 15 June 1088) was Archbishop Gurk Cathedral (Dom zu Gurk Krška stolnica is an Austrian Basilica in Gurk (Krka Carinthia, that was built in the high romanesque Gurk (Krka is an Austrian market Town and former episcopal see in the District of Sankt Veit an der Glan, Carinthia.