Wappen des Abtes Hagen While young Adolf was a student and chorister at the abbey, a Cistercian monk, named Adolf Joseph Lanz (Liebenfels), made a stay at Lambach. Die Abtei von Lambach When young Adolf Hitler became a student at, in Austria, the abbot of Lambach, had already died, but the swastikas he ordered to be carved still decorated the sanctuary of the Abbey. He left the monastery in 1899 with Lanz claimed that this was due to 'growing nervousness'.
