Seeon Abbey
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Seeon is a place and a former Benedictine monastery in the north of the district of Traunstein, now part of the municipality Seebruck.
History
In Seeon there are some traces of Roman settlement. The district Bräuhausen had been the place long before the founding of the monastery, on which stood a temple of Mars the Roman occupation. First records of the City The 924th was Seeon was founded in 994 by Count Palatine Aribo I. and his wife Adala. Benedictines of St. Emmeram from Regensburg respect it. The first cell of the Benedictine church of St. Lambert was built this year. The monastery is located on an island in Klostersee, which was also the place Seeon lies. The Benedictine developed a significant writing school, in which not only manuscripts were produced for their own consumption, but also for other monasteries and churches. The most important client was the Emperor Henry II, who gave one of the books he founded the Bishopric of Bamberg.
Gospel Lectionary of Henry II (. Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek, Msc Bibl 95, fol 8v. ): The Dream of Joseph
Towards the end of the 11th century, a new building of the monastery was built in the Romanesque style. This building was, however, barely a century; in 1180 erected the essentially still existing church with an apse as a conclusion to the east.
The church was again rebuilt then 1428/33 of the Burghausener Konrad Pürkhel in the style of late Gothic architecture. The Romanesque basilica was arched pillars and received a new choir. Unique is the painting of the church with Renaissance frescoes by 1579. Beside you show scenes from the life of Christ and Mary, among others, also the patron saints Benedict and Lambert and the monastery founder Aribo and Adala. Also worth seeing is the grave stone of red marble from Abt Honorat Kolb, who headed the monastery from 1634 to 1652, and lined up in the castle chapel on the walls grave stones of the abbots from the 15th and 16th century. In the middle of the room is the founder of High grave of the Count Palatine Aribo I., made by Hans Heider around 1400. Is also to visit the renovated monastery cloister.
The original of the Madonna with child ( Seeoner the Mother of God ) - created in 1433 by the so-called "Master of Seeon " - is one of the most beautiful depictions of Mary with the child. She is since 1855 in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich, but a copy is available since 1947 in the high altar of the present parish church Seeons. However, the sacristy of the church Seeoner has a much older Madonna of 1380th
The church originally had only one, namely the North Tower, which has been taken from the woman Chiemsee as a model. End of the 12th century came the second tower. The Romanesque towers are reminiscent of the Freising Cathedral and possess as the Munich Frauenkirche Welsche hoods ( copper onion domes ), which were added after a fire in 1561. In the years 1657-1670 the church to a sacristy in St. Mary's Chapel, the Betchor and a tomb was expanded under the Chapel of St. Barbara.
Until the secularization of the Benedictine monastery Seeon was also a place of learning and culture: Haydn was a guest and Mozart worked here 1767-1769 Yet 1771 was presented by him Offertories. . Mozart wrote specifically for the Seeon two Offertories: " coeli limina Scande " (KV 34; 1769) and "Inter Nato Mulierum " (KV 72; 1771). The so-called Mozart oak under which he is supposed to have, according to tradition enjoyed sitting, growing up today at Seeoner lake.
After the secularization of 1803, the island monastery was converted into a castle and served the European aristocracy and businessmen as accommodation. It was used as a spa, recreation center and barracks. The hospital and the library were broken off and created a dam to the mainland.
In the period 1852-1934, the family of the Dukes of Leuchtenberg owned by the former convent building was. In 1989, the complex was finally purchased by the district of Upper Bavaria and was opened in 1993 after a lengthy renovation period as a cultural and educational center again. Today, concerts, exhibitions, seminars, conferences and workshops will be held.
On January 1, 1980, the new church Seebruck was newly formed by the merger of the formerly independent communities Seebruck, Seeon and Truchtlaching. The greater community has a total of about 4,000 inhabitants. The place Seeon (formerly Niederseeon ) is located on the eastern shore of the lake Seeoner. It has about 1,000 inhabitants. In addition to the cultural and educational center of the district Upper Bavaria small - and medium-sized enterprises have settled in Seeon. Tourism plays in Seeon - apart from the training center - only a minor role, this is more likely to find in Seebruck.
Others
- In the Upper parish of Bamberg is the epitaph of two abbots of the monastery Seeon. This grave monument to the Reformabt the monastery Seeon Martin II Kötterlein ( February 28, 1590 ) and its successor, Paul Manezeder ( 16 October. 1602) is Solnhofen Stone and arrived at an unknown time in this parish. It's 1887 already exists. The left of the spectator from the coat of arms and probably portrait of the abbot Martin and right coat of arms and probably again the representation of Abbot Paul Manezeder.