Schäftlarn - Schäftlarn

Schäftlarn is a community in Upper Bavaria a few kilometers south of Munich. The same name Benedictine Abbey is one of the oldest monastery foundations in the region.

background

getting there

Distances (road km)
Wolfratshausen	11 km
Starnberg	12 km
Munich	26 km
Bad Tölz	33 km
Tegernsee	59 km
Mittenwald	59 km
Garmisch-Partenkirchen	70 km
innsbruck	128 km

By plane

The next major airport is "Franz Josef Strauss" (MUC) in Munich (approx. 62km distance);

By train

• MVV Munich: S-Bahn, line S7: (Munich - Wolfratshausen) Train stations: Hohenschäftlarn and Ebenhausen-Schäftlarn;

In the street

• Via the autobahn , Munich-Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Schäftlarn, further about 2.5km on the state road to Schäftlarn.

• Via the federal road B11 (Munich - Wolfratshausen)

• There are sufficient parking spaces at the monastery during "normal times".

mobility

Schäftlarn monastery

Directions

• Car: The monastery itself is about three kilometers south of the town of Schäftlarn on the Isar;

• Directions MVV: S7, Ebenhausen-Schäftlarn train station, from here a 15-minute walk (partly through the forest) to the monastery;

Monastery history

The beginning of the Schäftlarner Urkloster is dated to the year 762. In this year the Frankish noble landlord Waltrich transferred himself and his settlement of "Speerschächern" (sceftilari - Schäftlarn) not far from the "Isure" (the Isar) to the bishop of Freisingwho consecrated the first church of the newly founded monastery to the Frankish imperial saint Dionysius. Waltrich became the first abbot of the monastery and later made a career in France Dijon and as bishop of Langres.

The monastery was strategically important due to its proximity to the then still intact Roman road across the Alps. The ruling Agilofingian Bavarians and over 28 donations (including Schwabing in Munich and Hesselohe) led to a first bloom of the monastery, which lasted more than 200 years until the 10th century, the overall environment and the Hungarian invasions to a decline.

According to the latest research, Schäftlarn Monastery is considered to be the probable home of the monks of the eponymous settlement "with the monks" to which the City foundation history the Bavarian capital for the year 1158.

In 1140, as part of a general reform of his diocese, Bishop Otto von Freising established a new Premonstratensian propstacy. In the Middle Ages from the 12th to the 16th century, a large number of manuscripts, some of which were magnificently decorated, were created in the monastery, some of which are now in the State Library is located in Munich.

Four years after the consecration of a new church in 1594 (the monastery complex was largely destroyed in a fire in 1527), Pope Clement VIII elevated the provost to a monastery in 1598. In 1632, 1645 and 1648 the monastery was plundered by Swedish troops. Another warlike, gloomy date in the history of the monastery is the year 1705, in which the Oberland farmers and mountain riflemen (an estimated 3000 people) marched from the monastery to liberate Munich from the Austrian administration. The whole thing then ended in the massacre of "Sendlinger Murder Christmas ".

Today's monastery buildings were built in a construction phase from 1702-1707 as a four-wing complex around two inner courtyards and the monastery church as the center, which was built from 1710 to 1760;

During the secularization, the monastery church was converted into a parish church in 1803, the rest of the monastery complex was at times a faience factory and boarding school for girls until King Ludwig I bought the monastery and handed it over to the Bavarian Benedictines as a gift in 1865 with the requirement to found a school. The Benedictines initially ran the monastery complex as a priory, and in 1910 it was raised again to an abbey.

Today the monastery runs a high school, forestry and several commercial operations, including a beekeeping and a schnapps distillery.

The abbey is located on the Jakobsweg in Munich Lake Constance which was only created in 2003 and leads from Jakobsplatz in Munich along the Isar through the Schäftlarn monastery.

Monastery church

Today's church tower was built in 1710. The baroque Kosterkirche itself was built by the Munich court architect Francois Cuvillies the Elder in a first phase from 1733 to 1740 after the dilapidated previous building was demolished. (wikipedia) built. After construction was stopped due to lack of money, the church was then rebuilt in a second construction phase from 1751 to 1760 under the court master builder Johann Baptist Gunetzrhainer (wikipedia) and Johann Michael Fischer (wikipedia) completed. Today the church is considered to be one of the heyday of Bavarian Rococo.

The church was restored from 1954 to 1959, currently the ceiling fresco of the church is being renovated, the interior of the church is therefore completely scaffolded.

• Tourist Attractions inside the church are (among others):
  • Ceiling fresco, further frescoes and stucco work by the Wessobrunn artist Johann Baptist Zimmermann;
  • High altar, side altars, pulpit and choir stalls, created by the Rococo sculptor Johann Baptist Straub;
  • The organ and the prospectus are from 1762, the instrument from 1996;

• Prelate Garden, Monastery garden immediately south of the church;

• Monastery shop: Monastery products, handicrafts, wines, spirits, literature on Christian spirituality, body care products and honey from our own beekeeping;

Opening times: Wed. to Sat. and public holidays: 2-5 p.m. Sun .: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. info

• Address monastery: 82067 Schäftlarn Monastery; Tel .: 08178/790, Fax: 08178/7988; www.abtei-schaeftlarn.de;

• Web links to the monastery:
  • House of Bavarian History (www.hdbg.de) : Monasteries in Bavaria, Schäftlarn monastery;
  • Schäftlarn Monastery wikipedia

More Attractions

• St. George in Hohenschäftlarn, built from 1729 to 1732 by the Munich master mason Johann Georg Ettenhofer under the leadership of the important baroque master builder Giovanni Antonio Viscardi (wikipedia);

• St. Michael in Zell (Ebenhausen), baroque cemetery church, consecrated on September 20, 1734;

• Home of the community of Schäftlarn (Neuchl estate);

Oberdorf 6, 82069 Hohenschäftlarn; info;

Opening times: May to October every 1st Saturday, 2 pm-4pm, free entry;

activities

• Schäftlarn concerts; six music evenings a year in the monastery church, with renowned soloists and the "Orchestra of the Schäftlarner Concerts", composed of musicians from the major Munich orchestras. info;

shop

kitchen

• Klosterbräustüberl, Schäftlarn Monastery 16, 82067 Schäftlarn. Tel.: 49 8178 3694. Country inn, hotel and beer garden in Schäftlarn Abbey.Open: 10 a.m. - 10 p.m.Price: main course € 10 - € 20.last change: May 2020

nightlife

accommodation

Learn

• Benedictine high school Monastery high school with boarding school, founded in 1884.

82067 Schäftlarn Monastery, Tel .: 08178/7920; Fax: 08178/7972; [email protected];

health

Practical advice

prefix	08178
Post Code	82067, 82069

trips

literature

Web links

• http://www.schaeftlarn.de - Official website of Schäftlarn
• Coat of arms history for the place Schäftlarn at the HdBG;