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The Benedictine abbey of Andechs is a former place of pilgrimage on a hill east of the Ammersee in the Landkreis of Starnberg (Oberbayern) in Germany. The town has about 2500 inhabitants. Andechs is famed for its flamboyant Baroque church (1712) and its brewery. A Benedictine is a person who follows the Rule of St Benedict. ...
A pilgrimage is a term primarily used in religion and spirituality of a long journey or search of great moral significance. ...
Ammersee with German Alps Ammersee (Lake Ammer) is a lake in upper Bavaria, Germany located in the southwest of Munich between the towns of Herrsching and Diessen. ...
Starnberg is a Kreis (district) in the southern part of Bavaria, Germany. ...
Oberbayern (Upper Bavaria) is one of the seven administrative regions of Bavaria, Germany, located in the south of Bavaria, around the city Munich. ...
Counts and dukes of Andechs
The site of Andechs was originally occupied by a castle belonging to the counts of Dießen on the Ammersee, probably built on a Roman castra, and remained the seat of the powerful counts of Dießen-Andechs (1135 to 1180) and dukes of Andechs-Meranien (1180 to 1248). In 1132 the count donated his ancestral seat at Dießen to the Holy See and removed to Andechs. Ammersee with German Alps Ammersee (Lake Ammer) is a lake in upper Bavaria, Germany located in the southwest of Munich between the towns of Herrsching and Diessen. ...
Otto II of Andechs was bishop of Bamberg, 1177 – 1196. In 1208, when Philip of Swabia, King of the Germans, was assassinated at Bamberg by Otto of Wittelsbach, members of the house of Andechs were implicated, and the castle at Andechs was razed before the family was rehabilitated. Philip of Swabia depicted in a medieval manuscript (about 1200) Philip of Swabia (1177-1208), German king and duke of Swabia, the rival of the emperor Otto IV, was the fifth and youngest son of the emperor Frederick I and Beatrix, daughter of Renaud III, count of Burgundy, and consequently...
The Wittelsbach family is a European royal family and a German dynasty from Bavaria. ...
Saint Hedwig of Andechs (ca 1174 – October 1243) born at Andechs, was one of eight children born to Berthold IV, Count of Dießen-Andechs and Duke of Istria. Of her four brothers, two became bishops, Ekbert of Bamberg (1203 – 1231), and Berthold, Patriarch of Aquileia; Otto succeeded his father as Duke of Dalmatia, and Heinrich became Margrave of Istria. Of her three sisters, Gertrude of Andechs-Meran (1185–September 24, 1213) was the first wife of Andrew II of Hungary and the mother of St Elizabeth of Hungary; Mechtilde became Abbess of Kitzingen; while Agnes, a famous beauty, was made the unlawful wife of Philip Augustus of France in 1196, on the repudiation of his lawful wife, Ingeborg, but was dismissed in 1200, after Pope Innocent III laid France under an interdict. This article is about 13th century Saint. ...
Coat of arms Istria (Istra, pronounced in Croatian and Slovenian; Istria, pronounced in Italian, Istrien, pronounced in German) is the biggest peninsula in the Adriatic Sea. ...
The Bishopric of Bamberg was an ecclesiastical principality in the Holy Roman Empire, located around the city of Bamberg in Upper Franconia, also including the city of Erlangen. ...
Aquileia (Friulian Aquilee, Slovene Oglej), an ancient Roman town of Italy, at the head of the Adriatic at the edge of the lagoons, about 6 miles from the sea, on the river Natiso (mod. ...
Gertrude of Meran was the first wife of András II, king of Hungary. ...
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Philip II (French: Philippe II), called Philip Augustus (French: Philippe Auguste) (August 21, 1165 - July 14, 1223), was King of France from 1180 to 1223. ...
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When the dukes of Andechs-Meran were extinguished in the direct male line in 1248, the entire region was annexed by the bishop of Bamberg. A history of the house of Andechs was written by Joseph Hormayr Freiherr zu Hortenburg, the historian-statesman, and published in 1796. For broader historical context, see 1240s and 13th century. ...
Joseph Hormayr Freiherr zu Hortenburg or Joseph Freiherr von Hormayr zu Hortenburg (20 January 1781 or 1782 - 5 October 1848) was an Austrian/German statesman and historian. ...
The heilige Berg In 955, relics which Rasso, count of Diessen, had brought from Rome and the Holy Land to his monastery at Wörth (later called Grafath) had been transferred to this site to preserve them from the ravages of the Hungarians. In the 12th century three consecrated Hosts, two of which are reputed to have been consecrated by Pope Gregory I the other by Pope Leo IX were added to the relics at the heiligen Berg. The first documented pilgrimages to Andechs were in 1138, when count Berthold II ordered his subjects to make the journey to venerate the relics in the chapel of St Nicholas at the schloss. The legendary rediscovery of long-lost reliquaries in 1388 revived the ancient pilgrimage trade. Pope Saint Gregory I or Gregory the Great (ca. ...
Leo IX, born Bruno of Eguisheim-Dagsburg (June 21, 1002 – April 19, 1054) was Pope from February 12, 1049 to his death. ...
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The late-Gothic collegiate church which Duke Ernest I (1392 – 1438) had erected in 1423 was changed into a Benedictine monastery by Duke Albert III in 1455, and filled with monks from Tegernsee Abbey. In 1458 it was raised to an abbey, and thenceforth enjoyed a period of uninterrupted prosperity, completely remodelled in Baroque style in 1712, and forming part of the Hofmark Erling (Heiliger Berg Andechs) until its secularization in 1803. It was refounded in 1850 as a Benedictine priory, affiliated to the Abbey of St Boniface in Munich. The present church dates from the 18th century. Duke Ernest of Bavaria-Munich (* 1373 in Munich; †2. ...
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The former Tegernsee Abbey and basilica Tegernsee Abbey or the Imperial Abbey of Tegernsee (Kloster Tegernsee, Abtei or Reichsabtei Tegernsee) is a former Benedictine monastery located on the shores of the Tegernsee (from the Old High German tegarin seo, meaning great lake) in the town and district of the same...
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Munich (German: München, (pronounced listen) is the capital of the German Federal State of Bavaria (German: Freistaat Bayern). ...
Erling, huddled at the foot of the abbey was created an independent town in 1818. In 1850 the former abbey was refounded. Erling, Frieding and Machtlfing were united in 1978 as the Gemeinde Andechs.
Composer Carl Orff is buried in the cloister. Carl Orff Carl Orff (July 10, 1895 – March 29, 1982) was a German composer, most famous for Carmina Burana (1937). ...
Beer The Andechs Brewery is also known for its high alcohol content beer. A normal Helles is 11.5% alcohol by content and the Dopplebock Dunkle is 18.5% alcohol by content.
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