Moosen Monastery

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Moosen Monastery is a district of the Upper Bavarian town of Dorfen, just under a kilometer away . Until December 31, 1971, the place was one of three centers of the municipality of Hausmehring , which enclosed Dorfen on three sides. The village with around 350 inhabitants consists of two parts, the actual village standing on a hill with Moosen Castle and the settlement 300 m northwest in the valley floor on the Munich-Dorfen-Mühldorf railway line. In the meantime, the place has grown together with the city through a new development area between the Dorfener Moosener Siedlung and Kloster Moosen Siedlung.

history

The place, which was previously only called Moosen, was first mentioned in 1212 by Hartlieb von Moosen with reference to the castle . The other document mentions point to other owners of Hofmark Moosen including Caspar von Haslang , Preysinger , Hieronymus Endorfer and Baron KJ Dichtl . It is not known when the village formed around the castle. The name of the place was renamed Moosen Monastery in 1925 by the poor school sisters who have been running a children's home in the castle and the converted farm buildings since 1865. Under the last mayor of Hausmehringen, Sebastian Wohlsager (1948–1972), Moosen Monastery settlement was established, in which the Stiftl ski factory ( Sundei Ski) was previously located.

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The four-storey, cubic tower-like building with a hipped roof with a tall baroque chimney on top was built around 1620. Not much of the noble interior has been preserved due to its use as a monastery. The height of the room increases from floor to floor from bottom to top. To the south, directly attached to the outer wall, is the large castle chapel, which has served as a branch church of the Schwindkirchen parish since the 19th century .

history

The castle was built by the nobles von Westacher . The building came to Baron Karl Josef von Dichtl through marriage in 1722, when the male line of Westach died out. He sold it three years later to the Counts of Morawitzky , who owned it until 1813. After several changes of ownership, the Dorfen priest Anton Schmitter acquired the castle in 1856 and set up a rescue facility for neglected children under the direction of the Franciscan nuns, the poor school sisters since 1865. The institution had space for 60 girls between the ages of five and 16 years. In place of the economic building and the Meierhof, functional new buildings were built in 1889/1890. From 1865 until the Weimar Republic , an elementary school was also integrated. During the Second World War , the schoolgirls' home had to be closed and until the end of the war it served as a warehouse for the expanded Kinderland dispatch . In 1945 the poor school sisters founded a children's home. Today they run a children's and youth home as well as a daycare center and a naturopathic practice.

Church of St. Catherine

The interior of the 1490 × 610 × 850 cm Renaissance building is kept in the classicist style. The church is equipped with a late baroque high altar, the Morawitzky coat of arms on the choir arch and a silver shrine with a gesture of Christ

  • The settlement seen from the southeast

  • The place seen from the east

  • The place seen from the southwest

  • The castle with the children's home

literature

  • Eugen Press: Under the sign of the horse: a book from the district of Erding . Münchener Zeitungsverlag, Munich 1963.
  • Dorfener Heimatbuch. From the city elevation to the 3rd millennium . Volume 1, Präbst printing company, Dorfen 2006.

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Coordinates: 48 ° 16 '  N , 12 ° 10'  E