07 Alumnatsgarten
A garden in the centre of St. Pölten
BAKABU in the Alumnatsgarten
"We should take a break," suggests Lups. After the long journey, the four friends are quite exhausted. "Great idea!" says Bakabu. "The best place to go is the Alumnatsgarten," suggests the wolf. "Where?" asks Mimi Lou. "Alumnat? Is that something to eat?" "No," Lups smiles. "Alumnat is a word from a language that is no longer spoken, Latin." "Strange," murmurs Mimi Lou. "No one can understand if the language is no longer spoken." "That's true," agrees Lups. "An alumnus or alumna was a student, and an alumnat was their dormitory... a boarding school. The trees were planted by a wonderful landscape gardener, my great-uncle Lupeter," adds Lups proudly. "Pretty cozy here," says Mimi Lou, and everyone falls onto the soft grass. Only Charlie Gru doesn't make the best choice and settles right into an anthill... and the little creatures crawl up the pigeon's feathers. When Charlie Gru notices the tiny visitors, he screeches loudly and flaps into the air as if bitten by a tarantula. But as he calms down and prepares to land again, he notices something. "B-B-Bakabu," calls the frightened pigeon. "The t-t-trees look so strange from above. L-l-like notes." "Remember them, Charlie Gru!" exclaims Bakabu excitedly. "I think we've found another part of the song!"
On the trail of history
The Franciscan monastery in St. Pölten was founded in Wiener Straße in the middle of the 15th century. In 1784, it moved to Rathausplatz, where it still stands today, as part of the Josephinian monastery reform. The first bishop of St. Pölten, Johann Heinrich von Kerens, established a seminary there in 1791. The diocese's philosophical-theological college was also located here until 2022. The exterior of the building is decorated with Christian motifs by Arthur Brusenbauch from the 1930s. The monastery garden was redesigned in 2023 and is now a publicly accessible park.
