Altomünster Abbey

Monastery Altomuenster is the only monastery of the old branch of the Redeemer Order ( Birgitt interior ) in Germany. It is located in Alto Münster in Bavaria in the diocese of Munich and Freising and is today best known for its monastery church of St. Alto and St. Bridget of Johann Michael Fischer.

History

The Sts. Peter and Paul consecrated monastery was founded before 760 by Alto Alto Münster, a iroschottischen monk. 760-1047 Before it was a Benedictine and from 1047 to 1485 a Benedictine monastery. 1485 took over the Order of the Redeemer, the building and maintained therein until 1803, a double monastery with the now Sts. Alto and Birgitta consecrated monastery church.

Johann Michael Fischer began in 1763 with the construction of the hitherto Romanesque monastery church in the current style of the late Rococo. He took advantage of the slope of the Church, sent to implement the planning requirements of the Redeemer Order. Thus a central building for the parish as well as a long, narrow and high choir with four different room zones for nuns, monks, priests, diocesan and religious priests of other religious communities. Johann Baptist Straub created the altars and sculptures, Josef Magges the frescoes. Fischer ( who died in 1766 in Munich) last major project was completed by Balthasar Trischberger. 1803 Monastery Altomuenster was dissolved in the secularisation of 1842 and re-established as a nunnery of the Birgitt Order.

During World War II lived in the monastery, the large number of 59 nuns who took these after the war but quickly very much on. The little convent is currently conducting a guest house of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising. There currently live three sisters in the convent.

Since 1997, located next to the monastery the museum Altomuenster with a permanent exhibition on the history of the Redeemer Ordnes and the monastery.

Monastery Church: Organ

Monastery Church: Alto Altar

Monastery Church: pulpit

Herb garden of the monastery