The Augustinian monastery, consecrated to the apostles Peter and Paul, was founded in 1125 by Archbishop Konrad I of Salzburg. Its full title was in Latin: "conventus in Hegelberd sanctorum Petri et Pauli apostolorum ordinis sancti Augustini Saltzeburgensis diocesis". Höglwörth was the only monastery in Bavaria to be spared secularization, as it only fell to Bavaria in 1810 as part of the former Salzburg Rupertiwinkel. The monastery itself enforced its abolition in 1817. His last provost, Gilbert Grab, applied for the abolition of the monastery as early as 1813, but this was contradicted in a disregarded rescript of the Bavarian king from 1816. After that, Höglwörth belonged to the area of responsibility of the Freising Ordinariate at the beginning of 1817. Finally, on July 30, 1817, the last and only Bavarian monastery spared from secularization was abolished. This was also the last secularization carried out by the Kingdom of Bavaria. The monastery came into private hands.
The monastery with its rococo church is located on the peninsula of the same name (an island until modern silting up) in Höglwörther See in eastern Upper Bavaria. The church was rebuilt from 1675. The choir, in particular, has been preserved from the Romanesque church building. The Catholic branch church of St. Peter and Paul in Höglwörth, a district of the municipality of Anger in the Upper Bavarian district of Berchtesgadener Land, was originally the collegiate church of the Augustinian canons of Höglwörth, founded around 1125. The current church was rebuilt in the 17th century in the Baroque style. Between 1760 and 1785 the church was redesigned in the Rococo style. The church consecrated to the apostles Peter and Paul is a protected architectural monument.