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Landkreis Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz

Berching

View of Plankstetten Benedictine Abbey

Landkreis Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz

Berching

View of Plankstetten Benedictine Abbey

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View of Plankstetten Benedictine Abbey

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Location: Berching, Landkreis Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany

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April 14, 2024

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The Benedictine monastery was founded in 1129 as a private episcopal monastery by Count Ernst II of Hirschberg and his brothers Count Hartwig III of Grögling, governor of the Bishopric …

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In 1920, the first scholastics were able to move into the St. Benedict seminary in Luitpoldstrasse in Eichstätt (today the Episcopal Archives), which had been acquired from the Plankstetten Abbey shortly before. In 1935, a student dormitory was added, but this had to be closed again in 1941 on the orders of the National Socialists. It was reopened in 1946 and expanded in 1954 with a new building. On December 29, 1975, the seminary was closed. The Philosophy II department of the Eichstätt Church Comprehensive University was temporarily housed there.

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June 2, 2025

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beautiful view of the monastery

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