Echenbrunn Abbey

The monastery Echenbrunn is a former Benedictine monastery in the town district of the city Gundelfingen on the Danube in Bavaria in the diocese of Augsburg.

History

The St. Peter and Paul consecrated monastery was founded in 1122 by Gumbert of Flochberg, a precious fresco. It was in 1556 on the orders Ottheinrich, Elector Palatine, was dissolved. 1672 built Jesuits from Dillingen on the former grounds of the convent a summer residence, which later in the possession of the Maltese. At the site of the Abbey building is now a rectory, a Satteldachbau from the year 1732. Walling with the pointed arch still probably dates from the 16th century.