Isen is a municipality in the district of
Erding
Erding () is a town in Bavaria, Germany, and capital of the rural district of the same name. It had a population of 36,469 in 2019.
The original Erdinger Weissbier is a well-known Bavarian specialty.
Erding is located around 31 kilometers nor ...
in
Bavaria
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in
Germany
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Isen has once been home to a
Benedictine abbey
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, caption = Design on the obverse side of the Saint Benedict Medal
, abbreviation = OSB
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, motto = (English: 'Pray and Work')
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. The abbey was dissolved however during the secularisation in 1802 so only the St. Zeno Church remains today.
In 1946 Isen had a population of 1,631.
[''Columbi-Lippincott Gazetteer'', p. 850]
Sources
Erding (district)
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