Sandau Monastery

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Sandau Monastery is a former, no longer existing monastery complex of the Benedictine order in Bavaria .

Geographical location

The former monastery, which today is only reminiscent of a church, was located on the right bank of the Lech on the northern edge of what is now the urban area of ​​the city of Landsberg am Lech in Upper Bavaria .

history

Former monastery church of St. Benedict

The monastery was founded around 740 by the brothers Waldram, Eliland and Landfrid, Counts of Antdorf an der Loisach from the Huosi clan , together with Benediktbeuern Monastery , where Landfrid became the first abbot, and six other monasteries (the male convents Schlehdorf , Seiferstetten , Wessobrunn and the three women's monasteries Kochel , Polling and Staffelsee ).

The monastery was probably built in the 9th / 10th centuries. Century and destroyed again in the middle of the 10th century. The stone monastery church was preserved and has been rebuilt again and again to this day. Excavations make it possible to reconstruct their architectural history. The monastery had market rights , after its destruction the market rights passed to the city of Landsberg.

literature

  • Hermann Dannheimer: Sandau. Archeology in the area of ​​an old Bavarian monastery from the early Middle Ages . (With contributions by Rupert Gebhard et al.). Beck, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-10754-0 , ( Munich contributions to prehistory and early history 55).
  • Hermann Dannheimer: From the history of the Sandau monastery . In: Messages from the Friends of Bavarian Pre- and Early History 108, 2004, ZDB -ID 543667-9 , pp. 2-3.
  • Joachim Dellinger: Sandau, former Benedictine monastery and village with market rights on the Lech . Munich 1845 ( e-copy ).

Web links

Commons : Former monastery church of St. Benedict  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Latin sources from Martin Zeiller : Tractatus De X. Circulis Imperii Romano-Germanici . Ulm 1665, p. 230.
  2. ↑ Josef Hemmerle : The Diocese of Augsburg: The Benedictine Abbey Benediktbeuern . de Gruyter, Berlin and New York 1991, ISBN 3-11-012927-2 , p. 228

Coordinates: 48 ° 3 ′ 54 ″  N , 10 ° 52 ′ 53 ″  E