Höglwörth Abbey
The monastery Höglwörth is a former monastery of the Augustinian Canons in Höglwörth in Anger in Bavaria in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising.
History
The St. Peter and Paul consecrated Augustinian monastery was founded in 1125 by Archbishop Konrad I of Salzburg. Höglwörth spared the secularization as a single pin in Bavaria, since, with the Salzburg area " Rupertiwinkel " fell to Bavaria in 1816. The monastery continued its abolition in 1817 itself by. His last provost Gilbert grave seeking the annulment of the pen, however, already in 1813, but this was contradicted in a rescript did not obey the King of Bavaria from 1816. Then Höglwörth was the beginning of 1817 nor the jurisdiction of the Ordinariate Freising. On July 30, 1817, the last and only spared by the secularization remained Bavarian pen has been lifted. This was also the last performed by the Bavarian State secularization. The monastery was privately owned.
The monastery with its rococo church on a peninsula in Lake Höglwörther represents one of the finest ensembles in the eastern Upper Bavaria represents the church was rebuilt from 1675. From the Romanesque church, especially the choir remained. Prior to the silting in the East today peninsula was an island ( Wörth is an old word for island), as also shown on the plat of the 19th century.