Weihenstephan Abbey
The Weihenstephan Monastery is a former Benedictine abbey and former Säkularkanonikerstift in the diocese of Freising in Freising in Bavaria.
History
The first Sankt Veit, later Saints Stephen and Michael consecrated monastery was founded around the year 830 by the Bishop of Freising Hitto of Freising on the " Weihenstephan Hill ."
In 1020 lived here Säkularkanoniker ( " world spiritual canons "); This offset of the Freising Bishops Egilbert of Moosburg, founded 833, then deserted Freising Kloster Sankt Veit and replaced it with Benedictine monks from the monastery of St. Kastulus Moosburg.
In the course of secularization in Bavaria, the abbey was dissolved in 1803; 1810 abbey church elevated to parish church was canceled. Receive is still the Gothic high altar by Jan Polack. The eastern and southeastern part of the monastery complex were canceled ( now part of the Hofgarten ). The west wing and south-western part of the monastery are preserved to this day, as much a part of the westerly farm buildings of the monastery. These buildings are now used by the Technical University of Munich. In the southwestern monastery tract also the ballroom, with stucco 1705-1710 is by Nicholas Liechtenfurtner. In the courtyard of the course of the Wall of abandoned monastery church was reconstructed in 1998 after the archaeological excavations, the church is now recognizable as a floor plan. Get up today and the garden shed in the courtyard garden, the " Salettl ", the facade was reconstructed in the 1990s. It can be seen again in the Baroque appearance. Get the " Magdalene Chapel " from the 18th century, northwest of the former church. South of the Hofgarten on the mountainside are the ruins of the former Korbinian chapel, built by the Asam brothers and canceled in 1803.
Buildings and stables, fields and forests of the secularized monastery were sold or in the autumn of 1803 übergesiedelten from Munich School of Forestry and a newly established "model farm " transferred. With the administration of former monastic property Max Schön Leutner was commissioned, who looked at the forest and agricultural school as a teacher.
1807 had the operation of both schools will be set, as many students and teachers participated in the campaign of the allied with Napoleon Bonaparte Bavaria against Prussia and Russia, should return only by the few.
1852, the Agricultural College was again relocated to Weihenstephan and 1895 raised to the " Academy of Agriculture "; This was the nucleus of today's facilities at the Technical University of Munich and the University of Weihenstephan- Triesdorf forming the center of the campus Freising- Weihenstephan.
Abbots
1 Gerhardus ( 1021-1022 ) 2 Arnoldus ( 1022-1041 ) 3 Dietfriedus ( 1041-1047 ) 4 Heinricus I ( 1047-1062 ) 5 Beringerus ( 1062-1064 ) 6 Hagano or Hartwicus ( 1064-1080 ) 7 Heinricus II ( 1080-1082 ) 8 Erchangerus ( 1082-1096 ) 9 Pabo ( 1096-1097 and 1099-1114 ), in the meantime: Erchangerus 10 Meginhardus I ( 1116-1138 ) 11 Sigmarus ( 1138-1147 ) 12 Guntherus ( 1147-1156 ) 13 Rapoto ( 1156-1172 ) 14 Siboto ( 1172-1174 ) 15 Reginpoto ( 1174-1182 ) 16 Altunus ( 1182-1197 ) 17 Eberhardus ( 1197-1219 ) 18 Meginhardus II ( 1219-1224 ) 19 Ulricus I ( 1224-1226 ) 20 Ulricus II ( 1226-1251 ) 21 Heinricus III. (1251-1254) 22 Ulricus III. (1254-1256) 23 Ludovicus ( 1256-1261 ) 24 Conrad I ( 1261-1300 ) 25 Conrad II ( 1300-1312 ) 26 Heinricus III. (1312-131? ) 27 Walterus (131? -1319 ) 28 Conrad III. (1319-1328) 29 Conrad IV ( 1328-1331 ) 30 Marcwardus ( 1331-1367 ) 31 Gallus ( 1367 to 1370 ) 32 Albertus (around 1370-1378 ) 33 Ulricus IV Mine Beck ( 1378 ) (-) Administrator: Albertus ( 1378-1380 ) 34 Leonhardus I ( 1380-1415 ) 35 Frederick the Great ( 1415-1416 ) 36 Eberhardus II ( 1416-1448 ) 37 John ( 1448-1481 ) 38 Leonhardus II ( 1481-1484 ) 39 Christopher I. ( 1484 to 1487; d. 1507) 40 Wolfgang (around 1487-1495 ) 41 Anthony ( 1495-1508 ) 42 Benedictus I. ( 1508-1520 ) 43 Thomas ( 1520-1553 ) 44 Christopher II ( 1553-1563 ) 45 Kaspar Fras ( 1563-1576 ) 46 Paul ( 1576-1579 ) 47 Benedictus II ( 1579-1600 ) 48 Sixtus ( 1600-1618 ) 49 Christopher ( 1618) 50 George Tanner ( 1618 - after 1645) 51 Romanus ( 1645-1649 ) 52 Gregory ( 1649-1674 ) 53 Benedict III. (1674-1705) 54 Ildefons Huber ( 1705-1749 ) 55 Michael Renz ( 1749-1761 ) 56 Innocent Völkl ( 1761-1769 ) 57 Gerhard Bartl II ( 1769-1803 )