Polling Abbey (german: Kloster Polling) is a former monastery in Polling bei Weilheim, district of

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, in

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. According to legend, the founder was Duke

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in about 750, but it seems more likely that the founders were members of the powerful

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n noble family of the Huosi. Initially this was a

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monastery, but later became a house of

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. The abbey was dissolved during the secularization of 1803 and the buildings were mostly demolished between 1805 and 1807. The important late

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abbey church with early

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stucco work by the

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stuccoist Georg Schmuzer is now the parish church. Part of what few buildings remained came into the possession of the

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in 1892. The

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and the service block passed into private ownership. The unique library of Polling Abbey was restored in 1970-1975 and may be visited by arrangement with the ''Verein der Freunde des Pollinger Bibliotheksaals e.V.''. A

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is also accommodated in the remaining premises on the former abbey site.

References

* Hammermayer, Ludwig: ''Das Augustiner-Chorherrenstift Polling und sein Anteil an Entstehung und Entfaltung von Aufklärung und Akademie- und Sozietätsbewegung im süddeutsch-katholischen Raum (ca. 1717-1787)'' Paring 1997. * Milisterfer, Roland: ''Das Kloster Polling im 18. Jahrhundert.'' Polling 2004. * Matthias Memmel; Claudius Stein (ed.): ''"Ganz unbrauchbar..." Die Pollinger Pinakothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München'', München 2011.

External links

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Verein der Freunde des Pollinger Bibliotheksaals e.V.
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