The abbey foundation charter was issued in 1136 by Pellegrinus I, Patriarch of Aquileia, although monastic life had begun a year earlier, in 1135.

In 1784 Emperor Joseph II abolished the monastery, dissolved under the Josephine Reforms, but it was resettled again in 1898 by monks from Mehrerau Abbey on the shore of Lake Constance.

In terms of architecture, abbey has been repeatedly modified, leaving Romanesque and Gothic traces in Baroque buildings.

februar 1226 == Picture Gallery They abbey at one point had a high school inside, at the present there is a Museum of Christianity and a parish of Stična.

Abbey of Stična made a part of the economical tourism and herbalic pharmacy available to the laymen.

Pharmacy of late cistercian herbalist Simon Ašič has become an important reminder of the gardening that was a traditional occupancy of the monks.