St. Vitus' Abbey on the Rott

The monastery Sankt Veit is a former Benedictine monastery in Neumarkt -Sankt Veit in Bavaria in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising.

History

The St. Veit consecrated monastery was founded in 1121 by the noble Elsenbach Dietmar of Lungau and in 1171 moved to the nearby St. Vitus mountain high above the Rott. In 1255 the monastery was granted the right of free Abtwahl. In the late 14th century the monastery was quite wealthy, under Abbot Nicholas Humbler increased by 1501, the new church building in St. Veit be completed. However, during the Reformation, there was a crisis of the monastery, so that there were only three monks in the monastery in 1556. Abbot Andreas Kirchisner was deposed. Under the two abbots Andreas Sappenberger (1602-1633) and Maurus Fröschl (1633-1653) was able to recover the monastery despite Sweden ideas and a fire in 1639.

The organ was probably built in 1639 by Christoph Egedacher the Elder. The organ with two manuals and 20 stops comes from Franz Borgias Maerz from 1900 and 1976 was partially rebuilt.

Under Abbot Gregor Westermayr began in the 17th and 18th centuries, the second golden age of the monastery. After a fire in 1708, large parts of the monastery were rebuilt. Under Abbot Gregory II Kirmayr was committed the great 700 - year celebration of the monastery in 1730 ( a historical error ). Gregory II was 1723-1764 Dept. He was followed by Maurus Aimer and Anselm Schuler. With Celestine Weighart occurred in 1795, the last abbot of the monastery of his office to. A visitation of the monastery by the Electoral Council clerics criticized the states sharp, it came as a result in 1802 the self-dissolution of the monastery and the takeover by the ladies of St. Anne in Munich.

1829 went the monastery building into the possession of the Saxon Baron Maximilian Speck von Sternenburg 1858 they were sold to Maximilian of Montgelas, the son of the famous statesman Count Montgelas, who used the monastery as a castle. In 1894 the director of the Lion Brewery Anton Hertrich acquired the building. His son Otto operation successfully, the expansion of the former monastic brewery. The Klosterbräu Sankt Veit there was until 1984. The vast parts of the monastery were in possession of the Archbishop Klerikalseminars in Freising since 1934. Since 1952, the entire house is used as a retirement home, 1996, a new, modern building. Since 2006, the retirement home monastery of St. Veit -profit company is the recipient of nursing home.