Seeon - Seeon

Seeon is a state-approved resort in Chiemgau and is located on a lake district about four kilometers north of the Chiemsee. The former Seeon Benedictine Monastery is picturesquely located on a peninsula in the Klostersee.

background

Seeon was an ancient seat of the Celts and Romans. The place Seeon is first documented for the year 994 with the foundation of the Benedictine monastery Seeon.

Politically, Seeon forms the municipality of Seeon-Seebruck together with the towns of Seebruck and Truchtlaching.

Distances
Bad Endorf	18 km
Traunstein	22 km
Rosenheim	33 km
Altoetting	44 km
Burghausen	46 km
Salzburg	65 km
Kufstein	75 km
Berchtesgaden	77 km
Munich	80 km

getting there

By plane

Closest major international airport is Munich - Franz Josef Strauss (83 km, a good hour's drive on the country road). From here offer above all Lufthansa and their partner the Star Alliance Connections to cities in Germany, Europe and worldwide. As the second largest airport in Germany, it is connected to a growing number of cities.

The can also be reached quickly Salzburg Airport (58 km, just under an hour's drive);

By train

• The nearest train station is in Altenmarkt (Alz) (approx. 14 km away). It is on the branch line from Traunstein (Stop for InterCity trains) to Mühldorf am Inn (Traun-Alz-Bahn).

• Südostbayernbahn (DB): info;

In the street

• Via the federal motorway A 8 (Munich–Salzburg), Bernau am Chiemsee (from the west / Munich), further approx. 26 km, or Siegsdorf (from the east / Salzburg), further approx. 25 km.

• A parking lot is located almost directly at the monastery.

mobility

• the RVO (Regionalverkehr Oberbayern / DB) operates the bus routes in the region;

Regionalverkehr Oberbayern GmbH, Hirtenstrasse 24, D-80335 Munich; Tel .: 49/089 / 55164-0, Fax: 49/089 / 55164-199; info;

Tourist Attractions

Monastery cloister

Basilica: organ and vault

Seeon Monastery

The Benedictine monastery Seeon was founded in 994 by the Count Palatine Aribo I of the Aribonen family on an island in the monastery lake "Sewa" founded, the first monks came from the monastery of St. Emmeram in regensburg.

The monastery was an imperial monastery from 999 and in the Middle Ages it became a center of the art of book writing, it belongs to it from the year 1201 Salzburg.

The current building of the monastery church St. Lambert was built around 1180 as a Romanesque column basilica, in 1428/33 it was redesigned in the late Gothic style. An important sight inside is the Seehofer Madonna (around 1430, a copy, the original is in Bavarian National Museum in Munich.

In the 16th century, Seeon Abbey also experienced a decline in the course of the split in the church, and the convent only had seven members at times. It was not until the end of the 16th century that monastery life was able to recover again in the course of the Counter Reformation. By renouncing major baroque renovations, the monastery remains debt-free and becomes wealthy.

Famous monastery guests in the 18th century were Haydn and Mozart. The young Mozart composed two offers especially for the Seeon Abbey. Seeon monks teach at the university in Salzburg;

Until secularization, the Benedictine monastery was the cultural center in Chiemgau and one of the richest monasteries in Old Bavaria. In 1803 it was dissolved and then used in various ways, including by the noble Leuchtenberg family as a permanent residence, and the monastery became a castle. From 1816 the access bridge was demolished and replaced by the access dam, and the island becomes a peninsula. Various parts of the monastery complex are demolished. Thanks to the aristocratic family's good relations with Russia, Seeon Castle became an exile for numerous Russian emigrants after the Russian Revolution from 1918 onwards.

After another change of ownership (the Leuchtenberg family became impoverished), the buildings increasingly fell into disrepair in the 20th century.

The monastery has been owned by the district since 1989 Upper Bavaria. The buildings were extensively renovated in 1993, and the former monastery has been the venue for concerts, exhibitions and lectures ever since.

• Abbot Chapel of St. Nicholas, Built in 1757, important rococo chapel and most important sight in the monastery: stucco work by Johann Michael Feichtmayer (Wessobrunn school); in the conference area of ​​the education center, not open to the public. Visits by special arrangement with the Seeon Monastery Culture and Education Center.

St. Walburgis

Mannerist murals

• Side church of St. Walburgis, was built around 1470 over the foundation walls of an older Romanesque pre-church.

Parish church from 1481 and owned by the Seebruck-Seeon community since 1969. From 2003 to 2005 the historical form of the 16th century was restored with Mannerist wall paintings;

• Adjoining church St. Maria zu Bräuhausen built in 1532; Location northeast of the monastery island, can be reached quickly in three minutes via a footbridge from the monastery.

• Monastery shop (directly at the monastery): concert tickets, articles on the topic, tourist supplies, bike rental: www.klosterladen-seeon.de;

More Attractions

• Parish church St. Aegidius in Seeon Dorf: Gothic building with reticulated vaults;

activities

• Archaeological circuit: 25 km long cycle and hiking trail away from the main roads; Route through all three parts of the municipality, stations to prehistoric and early historical sites and archaeological monuments;

• Mozart cycle path: Circular route through the Salzburger Land and Bavaria, approx. 450 km long: www.mozartradweg.com;

shop

kitchen

• Monastery host, Klosterweg 1, 83370 Seeon (in the monastery). Tel.: 49 (0)8624 897 402, Fax: 49 (0)8624 897210, Email: [email protected]. last change: not specified

• Cafe-Bistro Leuchtenberg, Klosterweg 15, 83370 Seeon (in the monastery). Tel.: 49 (0)8624 897221, Fax: 49 (0)8624 897223. last change: not specified

• To the old landlord (Country inn), Altenmarkter Str. 10, 83370 Seeon (in Seeon). Tel.: 49 (0)8624 1567, Fax: 49 (0)8624 875333. last change: not specified

nightlife

accommodation

health

• Seeon pharmacy: Seestr. 5b, 83370 Seeon; Tel .: 08624/1253;

Practical advice

• Tourist information:

Am Anger 1, 83358 Seebruck; Tel .: 08667/71396; Fax: 08667 - 7415;

• Seeon Monastery: Culture and education center of the district of Upper Bavaria

Klosterweg 1; 83370 Seeon; Tel .: 08624 / 897-0; Fax: 08624 897-210; mailto: [email protected]

• post: Ludwig-Thoma-Strasse 8; 83358 Seeon (Seebruck); Tel .: 08667/88 70;

trips

• In the nature reserve of the Seeon Lake District consisting of a total of fourteen individual lakes.

• The Chiemsee, the Chiemgau and the Chiemgau Alps lie on the doorstep;

literature

Web links

• http://www.seeon-seebruck.de - Official website of Seeon-Seebruck

• Educational facility in the Upper Bavaria district in Seeon Abbey: www.kloster-seeon.de with the history of the monastery as pdf;

• House of Bavarian History (www.hdbg.de) : Monasteries in Bavaria, Seeon Monastery;

• Seeon at wikipedia;

• Chiemgau tourist office: www.chiemgau-tourismus.de;

• Chiemsee Tourist Association:www.chiemsee.de;