Höglwörth Abbey
building in Anger, Bavaria,Upper Bavaria, Germany
Höglwörth Abbey (German: Kloster Höglwörth) is a former monastery of the Augustinian Canons in Höglwörth, near Anger in Bavaria, in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising.
History
The Augustinian monastery dedicated to St. Peter and Paul was founded in 1125 by Archbishop Conrad I of Salzburg.
It was the only monastery saved from the secularization of Bavaria (1802 and 1803), until Rupertiwinkel became part of the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1816.
The last provost Gilbert Grab sought relief from secularization from 1813, but this was not granted until 1816 by the King of Bavaria.
On 30 July 1817 it was formally given independence as a privately owned monastery.
The monastery with its rococo church on a peninsula in Lake Höglwörth represents one of the finest ensembles in the eastern Upper Bavaria.
The church was rebuilt from 1675. The choir was preserved from the Romanesque church.
Before silting to the east the monastery was on an island, but it is now on a peninsula.
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