The former Benedictine monastery of St. Michael was founded in 1015 at the suggestion of Emperor Heinrich II. Today it impresses with its mighty baroque-style buildings.
Already in 1117 the first church fell victim to an earthquake. Bishop Otto the Holy then had a Romanesque church built and the appearance of the medieval monastery castle changed only slightly up until the 17th century. After a fire in 1610, the church was rebuilt in the neo-Gothic style. In the 18th century the monastery complex was given a baroque appearance by the Dientzenhofer brothers. The baroque church façade with its impressive staircase, the tomb of Saint Otto and the neo-Gothic net vault are particularly worth seeing. The information center in the courtyard of the monastery also offers the numerous visitors to the Michaelsberg a contact point.
Currently (2022) the church cannot be visited from the inside, as extensive renovation work is pending, which will take several years.