Ramsau monastery near Hague

The Monastery Ramsau bei Haag is a former convent of the Augustinian Hermits in Ramsau (municipality Reichertsheim ) in Bavaria in the diocese of Freising .

Engraving of the monastery from the Churbaier Atlas by Anton Wilhelm Ertl 1687

history

The monastery, consecrated to St. Mary, St. Augustine and St. George, was founded in 1412 by Jörg von Frauenberg , owner of the Haag rule . It was dissolved in 1802 in the course of secularization . The monastery buildings initially came into private ownership. In 1899 Franciscan Sisters built an orphanage in the buildings (St. Joseph Children's Home). Since 1996, residential communities with 40 places for the mentally handicapped have been housed in the monastery (Ecksberg Foundation).

monument

The south wing of the Ramsau monastery has been preserved, a three-storey baroque hipped roof tract, in its core 1731, modernized and expanded.

Personalities

• Theodor Grünberger (1756–1820), composer, Augustinian monk and priest; created a large part of his most important works in the monastery of Ramsau.

literature

• Franz Dionys Reithofer : Chronological history of the royal. Bavarian cities of Landsberg and Weilheim , the patch of Ebersberg , and the Ramsau monastery; from mostly unused sources. Munich 1815 ( e-copy ), in particular p. 50 ff.

Web links

• House of Bavarian History
• 150 years of beneficial work by the Franciscan Sisters in Kloster Au
• Ramsau shared apartments
• Report on the 600th anniversary of the Ramsau monastery

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of monuments for Reichertsheim (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation

Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 25 ″  N , 12 ° 13 ′ 43.1 ″  E