Beuerberg Abbey

The monastery Beuerberg is a former monastery of the Augustinian Canons and today Convent of the Visitation sisters in the village Beuerberg, a municipality part of Eurasburg district of Bad Tölz- Wolfratshausen in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising.

History

The St. Peter and Paul consecrated monastery was founded in 1121 by the brothers Otto, Eberhard and Conrad, Count of Iringsburg ( Eurasburg ). On March 30 this year, it received the corresponding papal confirmation bull.

When the monastery had fallen into oppressive debt, those responsible were transferred to other places according to one arranged by the Duke Provost election on 23 November 1557. The monastery had to before the Thirty Years' War, a three-aisled basilica. When attempting a remodel crashed on November 13, 1628 the whole building together with the exception of the high altar.

Following the example of St. Michael's Church in Munich, the church was rebuilt in 1630-1635 by architect Isaac Bader. The upper parts of the tower was built after 1659. 1729 was followed by the rebuilding of the monastery building.

The monastery was dissolved in 1803 in the wake of secularization. 539 books and manuscripts came to the Bavarian State Library, 439 books in the university library. The monastery church was the parish church.

Johann Karl von Arnhard, businessman and councilor to Munich, auctioned the monastery buildings including Maierhof and hospital. 1821 Franz Freiherr von Maderny sole owner. 1835 came Salesian Sisters ( Sisters of the Visitation) by Beuerberg. Between 1846 and 1938 a girls' school and a convalescent home mothers were housed there, and later a rest home for the elderly.