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Landkreis Berchtesgadener Land

Höglwörth Monastery

Landkreis Berchtesgadener Land

Anger

Höglwörth Monastery

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Höglwörth Monastery

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Location: Anger, Landkreis Berchtesgadener Land, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany

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Vanessa

March 20, 2019

On a peninsula in Höglwörther See is the 1125 founded by the Salzburg Archbishop Konrad I former Augustinerchorherrenstift. The church surprises with an elegant stucco decoration (around 1765) by Benedikt Zöpf and a ceiling painting by Franz Nikolaus Streicher. The showpiece is the altarpiece, the Transfiguration of Christ, by Master Francesco Vanni from Sienna (about 1600). Also impressive is the enclosed courtyard of the monastery, which is paved with fist-sized pebbles.

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Andrea und Huskys 🐺

August 13, 2025

Archbishop Konrad I of Salzburg founded this Augustinian monastery in 1125 on an island in Lake Höglwörth. On July 30, 1817, the last provost, Gilbert Grab, voluntarily abolished the monastery and privatized it. It was the last monastery to be secularized in Bavaria. In 1821, the building was purchased by the Wieninger brewery family, who still own it today. In addition to its spiritual significance, beer also played a major role in Höglwörth. Starting in 1730, the monks built a brewery here, which initially made losses but then flourished. By 1804, the monastery was already producing 3,800 hectoliters of beer. The brewery continued to exist, even after the monastery was dissolved.

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Andrea und Huskys 🐺

August 13, 2025

The former monastery church of St. Peter and Paul is now a branch church of the Anger parish and impresses with its architectural history, which ranges from the Romanesque period to the late Rococo period. The square bell tower with its onion dome, the single-nave nave with a gallery, and the Romanesque choir with its groin vault tell of centuries of architectural history. Particularly noteworthy are the high altarpiece by Francesco Vanni (c. 1600), depicting the Transfiguration of Christ, and the stucco work by Benedikt Zöpf (1765), which lend the church a unique atmosphere.

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Location: Anger, Landkreis Berchtesgadener Land, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany

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