Right next to the old monastery church you can see one of the oldest buildings in Bavaria, the Carolingian Gate Hall. Inside the gate hall, a cycle of frescoes by archangels can be seen, which can be regarded as a major work of the Carolingian Renaissance. The chapel room shows copies of famous art treasures from the Agilolfinger and Carolingian periods. The exhibition in the vicarage is dedicated to the Chiemsee painting.

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April 17, 2021

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Worth seeing is the so-called Carolingian gatehouse from the early days of the monastery, which dates back to the year 850.[5] This is a rectangular building made of tuff stone …

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July 11, 2022

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Many conversions and changes of use as a school and from 1920 as an artist exhibition space make it difficult to date exactly. It is assumed that the Carolingian gate hall with the art-historically valuable St. Michael's Chapel was built under Tassilo III. was built as the entrance building in front of the monastery around the year 782, other archaeologists place the building on the 8th or 10th century.

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Location: Chiemsee, Chiemgau, Traunstein, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany

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