Weihenstephan

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Weihenstephan is a district on the named after the abbey Weihenstephan " Weihenstephaner Berg". The district is located in the west of the district town of Freising in Bavaria.

History

In 1020 lived in the Weihenstephan Monastery Säkularkanoniker ( " world spiritual canons "); This offset of the Freising Bishops Egilbert of Moosburg in the then deserted Freising monastery Sankt Veit and replaced it with Benedictine monks from the monastery of St. Kastulus Moosburg. The monastery church was consecrated in St. Stephen.

Weihenstephan was a cloister Mark - which also includes the village Vötting belonged - with low jurisdiction.

In the course of secularization in Bavaria, the abbey was dissolved in 1803; In February 1812, the abbey church elevated to parish church was canceled. 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.

The 1040 in the Weihenstephan Monastery founded in 1803 and nationalized brewery since 1921 " Bavarian State Brewery ."

The place Weihenstephan, founded in 1818 belonged to the community Vötting and was incorporated as the Town of Vötting in the county town of Freising on 1 April 1937.

Economy

On the Weihenstephaner Berg, the Bavarian State Brewery Weihenstephan has its headquarters, it came out of the monastery brewery.

The "State Dairy Weihenstephan " moved in 1998 from the " Weihenstephan Hill " on the former Schlütergut south of Freising, was privatized in 2000 and has since continued as a subsidiary of the company Theo Müller Group.

Educational and other institutions

From the forestry school was founded after the secularization and the pattern farm today's campus Freising- Weihenstephan with two universities and other research and educational institutions was created, including

  • Weihenstephan Science Center
  • State Vocational School of Floral Art
  • Bavarian State Research Center for Agriculture
  • Bavarian State Institute of Forestry (LWF )
  • Research Institute for Horticulture Weihenstephan
  • Center Forest - Forest-Wood Weihenstephan
  • Agricultural Science Center Weihenstephan
Weihenstephan Abbey Order of Saint Benedict Field (agriculture) Municipality
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