Place of worship
Stift Wilten
Baroque abbey church rebuilt over a Gothic skeleton, guarded by two legendary giant statues.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to Wilten Abbey in Innsbruck starts with a stone giant named Haymon, toppled by a storm in eighteen seventy-five in a fall that never quite added up. It follows architect Christoph Gumpp through the fourteen-year rebuild of the abbey church in the sixteen fifties, when Emperor Leopold the First traveled here for its consecration. You will also meet Haymon's slain rival, Thyrsus, still standing guard across the doorway.
This audio guide was created using AI.