Bettbrunn Monastery
Bettbrunn Monastery is a former Augustinian monastery in Bettbrunn , today part of the municipality of Kösching in Bavaria .
history
Bettbrunn has been documented as a host pilgrimage since 1125. The first wooden chapel burned down in 1329, the host was lost in the fire, but not a wooden image of Christ. This image of St. Salvator has been particularly venerated since the fire. The monastery consecrated to Saint Salvator was founded in 1690 by Elector Maximilian II Emanuel of Bavaria and the Bishop of Regensburg. The Augustinian hermits, who had been helping out in Bettbrunn since 1650, were supposed to take care of the pilgrims. In 1754 pilgrimages from 9 cities, 21 markets and 114 village parishes are documented. In 1774 the nave of the church was enlarged to better accommodate the pilgrims. In 1797 there were 37,000 pilgrimage communions. The monastery was dissolved and sold in the course of secularization in 1803, and the convent buildings were demolished. Valuables, votive gifts, paraments and church utensils were also picked up and sold. Pilgrimages were banned by the church. It was not until the 1860s that pilgrimage was revived. Today around 60 parishes regularly come to the pilgrimage every year.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ′ 22.4 " N , 11 ° 33 ′ 20.4" E