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Encyclopedia > Weihenstephan

Weihenstephan is part of the city of Freising (48,500 inhabitants) north of Munich. Here the oldest brewery in the world is located. Freising is a city in Bavaria, Germany, capital of the district Freising. ... Munich: Frauenkirche and Town Hall steeple Munich (German: München (pronounced listen) is the state capital of the German Bundesland of Bavaria. ... A brewery is a facility that produces beer. ...


Weihenstephan is known

  • as the site of one of the three campuses of the Munich University of Technology (TUM), namely the one for life sciences
  • for its Benedictine abbey, founded 725, which established the allegedly oldest brewery still in operation today (see beer). The brewery is now known as Bayerische Staatsbrauerei Weihenstephan (i.e. it is owned by the State of Bavaria) and closely related to the TUM and its graduate studies program for brewing and beverage manufacturing.
  • for the Staatliche Molkerei Weihenstephan (the State-operated dairy Weihenstephan) which also closely cooperated with the TUM and its agricultural studies programme, but is now no longer owned by the State but has been sold to the Müller dairy group.

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Weihenstephan is part of the city of Freising (48,500 inhabitants) north of Munich.
Here the oldest brewery in the world is located.
for the Staatliche Molkerei Weihenstephan (the State-operated dairy Weihenstephan) which also closely cooperated with the TUM and its agricultural studies programme, but is now no longer owned by the State but has been sold to the Müller dairy group.
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