Convent and dwarf garden

Dwarf statues in the garden of the monastery

Three sundials can be admired in the inner courtyard of Lambach Abbey. On the north wall, the enthroned Mother of God with the Child Jesus, venerated by St. Adalbero, adorns the sundial.

Abbot Maximilian Pagl had the Abbey garden redesigned in the Baroque style and today it presents itself to visitors as a dwarf garden, inspired by Callot's engravings and created by the Linz sculptor Johann Baptist Wanscher. The so-called dwarf cabinet, which stretches along the central path, shows six figures: a hussar colonel, a Tyrolean marksman, a Jewish schoolmaster, a shyster lawyer, a lawyer working with questionable means without legal authority and a Savoyard worm cutter, as well as a boat servant.

In the eastern and western ends of the central path are two putti representing the fight against a demon and the devil respectively.

The centre of the garden is adorned with a circular square on which four statues represent the four continents as understood by the people of the Baroque period: Europe with a horse, Africa with a camel, Asia with an elephant and America with a lion.