Kloster Weltenburg

Kloster Weltenburg (Weltenburg Abbey) is the oldest abbey in Bavaria, founded about 620 by iro-scottish monks. The abbey is situated on the banks of the Danube, just west of the "Weltenburger Enge" ("Danube Gorge"). Saint Rupert may have consecrated a church here, dedicated to St. George around 700.

In 1050 Benedictian monks founded a brewery here, that is still existing (though the abbey got secularised in 1803 and refounded some decades later). The brewery claims, to be the oldest monastery brewery in the world today, even older than the brewery in Weihenstephan.

There are not many traces from the early times. During the wars of the 16th/17th century, the abbey was looted a couple of times. Most of the buildings were erected within the first half of the 18th century in the Baroque style. At that time the abbey was wealthy again and could effort to have the best artists here to work.

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As the photos I took inside the church in 2012 are much better than the photos I took in 2020, I have added two PiPs.