Reisach Monastery
The Reisach Monastery is a monastery of the Discalced Carmelites in the municipality of Oberaudorf near Niederaudorf in Bavaria in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising .
history
The monastery consecrated to St. Theresa was founded in 1731 by Johann Georg Messerer, an electoral Bavarian court chamber councilor, under the name Urfahrn monastery. It was built by Abraham Millauer and his son Philipp from 1737 to 1747 according to plans by the Munich court architect Johann Baptist Gunetzrhainer . The interior of the church comes from the Munich court painter Balthasar Augustin Albrecht . The monastery was dissolved in 1802 as part of the Bavarian secularization . It was designated as the extinction monastery of the remaining abolished Carmelite monasteries . In 1836/37 it was rebuilt under the name Reisach Monastery.
The Reisach monastery will be dissolved by the end of 2019, and the religious will be withdrawn to Poland later this year. Ownership of buildings and land goes back to the Free State of Bavaria. A further use has not yet been decided in May 2019.
Attractions
The baroque nativity scene in the Carmelite Church is one of the highest quality church nativity scenes in Upper Bavaria and dates from the second half of the 18th century.
The great relief of wood to the image side altars are unique in its kind.
Scapular altar by JB Straub
Baroque nativity scene
Individual evidence
Web links
- Website of Reisach Monastery
- Pictures and information about Reisach Abbey on the website of the Archdiocese of Munich
- Reisach Abbey , basic data in the database of monasteries in Bavaria in the House of Bavarian History
Coordinates: 47 ° 39 ′ 52.2 " N , 12 ° 10 ′ 33" E