Gars Abbey

Monastery Gars is since 1858 a convent of the Redemptorists in Gars am Inn in Bavaria in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising.

History

The SS Mary and Radegund consecrated monastery was by Duke Tassilo III. founded by Bavaria 768 as ' Cella Garoz '. Originally, in Gars Benedictines, 1122-1803, the year of resolution in the course of secularization in Bavaria, the monastery was an Augustinian Canons. The early baroque church (built under the direction of Christoph Zuccalli along with his two cousins ​​Kaspar and Enrico from Roveredo in Grisons ) is considered the first Baroque church on German soil. You and central monastic buildings survived the Säkularisationszeit. Since 1858 it is a Redemptorist. From 1907 to 1973 in Gars a Philosophical- Theological College for the Redemptorists of the Munich province of the order was placed. In the complex there are also classrooms and administrative offices of a state school and an institute for teacher training. In the monastery church is the grave of the Redemptorists in 1988 beatified Kaspar Stangassinger.

Lived in the monastery and worked from 1871 until his death in 1930, the famous painter Max Schmalzl monk, who is also called the Bavarian Fra Angelico.

Until her death in 1879, the Bavarian mystic Louise Beck lived in the monastery. During this time they dominated the monastery and had great influence on the Bavarian church policy.