The Provostry of St. Michael (german: Propstei St. Michael) is a monastery in

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in the district of

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Bavaria Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...

, Germany.

History

The monastery, dedicated to Saint Michael, was founded in 1141 by Gebhard von Roning, as a monastery of

Canons Regular Canons regular are priests who live in community under a rule ( and canon in greek) and are generally organised into religious orders, differing from both secular canons and other forms of religious life, such as clerics regular, designated by a ...

, which it remained until 1598. It was re-founded in 1616 by monks from

Andechs Abbey Andechs Abbey is a Benedictine priory in the municipality of Andechs, in the ''Landkreis'' of Starnberg, Upper Bavaria, Germany . A place of pilgrimage on a hill east of the Ammersee, the Abbey is famed for its flamboyant Baroque church and its ...

as a

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community, which was dissolved during the

secularization In sociology, secularization (or secularisation) is the transformation of a society from close identification with religious values and institutions toward non-religious values and secular institutions. The ''secularization thesis'' expresses the ...

of monasteries in Bavaria in 1803. The monastery was bought in 1974 by the Canons Regular of the newly refounded Congregation of Windesheim, and is the

motherhouse A motherhouse is the principal house or community for a religious institute. It would normally be where the residence and offices of the religious superior In a hierarchy or tree structure of any kind, a superior is an individual or position at ...

of this revived congregation.

Buildings

The buildings had been bought by a farmer during the 19th century, and were partially destroyed.

External links

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