Klösterl Walchensee
The Klösterl Walchensee is a former Hieronymite monastery, consecrated to St. Anna and St. Joachim , which belongs to the hamlet of Zwergern on the peninsula of the same name (municipality of Kochel am See ).
Founded in 1688, it was dissolved again in 1725 and came to the Benediktbeuern monastery . After secularization in the possession of the Bavarian state , it served as a residence for the pastor and teacher of Walchensee until the 1960s. The diocese of Augsburg acquired it in 1979 , had it restored and today uses it as a youth education center . His chapel can be visited on Sundays during the summer.
description
The Klösterl is located in the outer area of the Walchensee Bay, which separates the Zwergern peninsula from the western shore of the Walchensee, around 330 meters across from the village of Walchensee. It gave the smaller Klösterl peninsula on the western tip of the peninsula dwarfs their name.
The former monastery is a two-story building with the baroque chapel of St. Anna, which also served as accommodation for the monks. Its slate-covered gable roof has a wooden roof turret with an onion hood at the end . Inside the chapel there are stucco tendrils on the vault and ceiling as well as a baroque high altar by Cosmas Damian Asam from 1728. The chapel can be visited on Sundays in summer.
history
The monastery was founded by Wolfgang Holzer (Frater Onuphrius) from Warngau in Upper Bavaria , who was able to win the Bavarian Electress Maria Antonia of Austria , daughter of Emperor Leopold I , as a patron for his small community of hermits . In 1686 she arranged for the construction of a chapel and a house with accommodation for the Hieronymites on the property of the Augustinian Canons Monastery in Schlehdorf . The founding of the monastery met with little approval from the neighboring Benediktbeuern monastery, because the Schlehdorfer area belonged to their property, but the Beuern abbot Placidus bowed - albeit reluctantly - to the wishes of the electress.
The St. Anna monastery chapel was completed in September 1689, but due to the proximity to the Benediktbeuerner monastery there were repeated disputes with the local abbot. There were disputes over hunting and fishing rights, and the innkeeper of the Beuerner monastery complained about high sales drops because of the hieronymites brewed their own beer and thus stole his customers. In addition, the monastery had accepted more monks than it should have been. The ongoing dispute ultimately led to the Hieronymites Monastery being dissolved in 1725 and its monks moving to St. Anna im Lehel in Munich. The monastery came into the possession of Benediktbeuern, who had the chapel rebuilt and expanded by Johann Michael Fischer in the Baroque style until 1728 and then used it as a branch church . An inn was set up in the monastery building.
With the secularization , the monastery came to the Bavarian state in 1803 and was used as the apartment of the pastor of Walchensee until the end of the 1960s. The first pastor was the last prior of Benediktbeuern, who, as a teacher, also looked after the school set up in the Klösterl.
From 1968 the building was uninhabited for ten years and was no longer used. During this time it was broken into several times and the valuable interior furnishings were badly damaged or stolen. At the end of the 1970s, the diocese of Augsburg acquired the small complex and had it completely restored from 1981 to 1988. Since the completion of the extensive work, it has been used by the diocese as a youth education center.
literature
- Norbert Backmund: The smaller orders in Bavaria and their monasteries up to secularization . Poppe, Windberg 1974, pp. 54-55.
- Karl Emerich: The St. Anna church or Klösterl on Lake Walchensee. Fragments from his past collected by Karl Emerich. von Seidel'sche Buchdruckerei, Sulzbach 1912.
Web links
- Story and photos
- Information on the Klösterl youth education center
- Klösterl Walchensee , basic data in the database of monasteries in Bavaria in the House of Bavarian History
Coordinates: 47 ° 35 ′ 15.3 " N , 11 ° 19 ′ 16.5" E