Weissenohe Abbey (german: Kloster Weißenohe) was a

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monastery in Weissenohe in the district of

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, Germany.

History

The monastery, dedicated to

Saint Boniface Boniface, OSB ( la, Bonifatius; 675 – 5 June 754) was an English Benedictines, Benedictine monk and leading figure in the Anglo-Saxon mission to the Germanic parts of the Frankish Empire during the eighth century. He organised significant ...

, was founded by Aribo IV, Count (''"Pfalzgraf"'') of the

Chiemgau Chiemgau () is the common name of a geographic area in Upper Bavaria. It refers to the foothills of the Alps between the rivers Inn and Traun, with the Chiemsee at its center. The political districts that contain the Chiemgau are Rosenheim and T ...

. In 1692 construction of the present abbey church was begun, to plans by Wolfgang Dietzenhofer (1648-1706). The abbey was dissolved in 1803 during the

secularisation 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 Bavaria. The abbey buildings were sold in 1804 and in 1850 demolished except for a single range. Work on the abbey church finished only in 1907. Weissenoher Klosterbrauerei Kloster-Sud

The surviving premises are now used for offices and cafés, and for the beer garden of the brewery named after the abbey.Braukultur in der Klosterbrauerei Weißenohe
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References

External links

* Katharina Wolff
Fond: Kloster Weißenohe Urkunden
In: Monasterium.net. ICARUS – International Centre for Archival Research (Weissenohe documents 1109 to 1612 with historical introduction)
Choir academy, Kloster Weißenohe
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