CHIME AND HOME-BREW
Churches, chapels, monasteries or simple wayside crosses: impressive evidence of religious life can be found everywhere.
Ettal Abbey in the Ammergau Alps
about 10 km away
The Benedictine Abbey of Ettal was founded in 1330.
SWorth seeing is the rococo church completed in 1752 with a 52 meter high dome.
The very busy monastery also runs a liqueur distillery, a brewery and several restaurants.
Kirche Rottenbuch
about 33 km away
Welf IV., Duke of Bavaria, founded the monastery in 1073, the fresco paintings are by Matthias Günther, the late Gothic Madonna and Child by Erasmus Grasser and altars and the pulpit by Franz Xaver Schmädl.
Rottenbuch Church
about 37 km away
The Benediktbeuern monastery in Bavaria looks back on more than 1,250 years of history.
In 1803 the Benedictine monastery was shut down in the course of secularisation.
The former Benedictine abbey has been the Salesian religious college of Saint Don Bosco since 1931.
Wieskirche - one of the most famous rococo churches in the world
about 45 km away
The Wieskirche is one of the most famous rococo churches in the world.
It has been an UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1983.
The center of this church is the figure of the suffering Christ, the Scourged Saviour.
On June 14, 1738, the peasant woman Maria Lory saw tears in the eyes of a figure representing Jesus suffering at the pillar of scourging. This miracle of tears was the starting point for the pilgrimage to the Scourged Savior on the Wies in the district of Wies near Steingaden. From 1745 to 1754 Dominikus Zimmermann built a unique place of worship for this purpose. Rococo at its best adorns the church. About 1 million visitors from all over the world come every year, including many pilgrims.
The Wieskirche invites you to observe, to be amazed, to pray, to attend church services, to listen to one of the concerts in summer and last but not least it invites you to quiet contemplation while meeting God as the Scourged Saviour.
