Weihenstephan Abbey
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Weihenstephan Abbey (Kloster Weihenstephan ) was a Benedictine monastery in Freising in Bavaria, Germany.
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[edit] Monastery
Saint Corbinian, whose arrival in Freising is dated at around 720, founded a church of Saint Stephen here, with a monk's cell attached to it, which seems to have disappeared again before the end of the 8th century. The monastery proper, dedicated at first to Saint Vitus, later to Saints Stephen and Michael, was founded by Bishop Hitto von Freising in approximately 811–835. From then until to 1020 or 1021 it was a monastery of Augustinian Canons. From 1021 it was a Benedictine abbey.
The abbey was dissolved in 1803 during the secularisation of Bavaria and its property sold off. In 1810 the abbey church, which had been made into a parish church, was demolished.
[edit] School
In the autumn of 1803 the Forestry School from Munich was moved into the empty buildings; at the same time a model farm was established. A large part of the previous abbey economy, with buildings and stables as well as forests and fields, was transferred to the forestry school or the model farm. From 1804 agricultural science was taught here by Max Schönleutner.
But as early as 1807 both schools were wound up, as many teachers and students had taken part in the Napoleon's invasion of Russia, from which few had returned. In 1852 the agricultural school was again set up in Weihenstephan and in 1895 made into an agricultural college, which formed the nucleus of the Technical University of Munich in Freising.
[edit] Brewery
The brewery on the site claims to trace its origins to the first foundation in the 720s and thus to be the eldest working brewery in the world. See Weihenstephan.
[edit] External links
- (German) Klöster in Bayern: Weihenstephan
