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The Benedictine

Benedictine

Benedictine refers to the spirituality and consecrated life in accordance with the Rule of St Benedict, written by Benedict of Nursia in the sixth century for the cenobitic communities he founded in central Italy....
abbey of Andechs is a former place of pilgrimage

Pilgrimage

File:Supplicating Pilgrim at Masjid Al Haram. Mecca, Saudi Arabia.jpgIn religion and spirituality, a pilgrimage is a long quest or search of great moral significance....
on a hill east of the Ammersee

Ammersee

Starnberg (district)

Starnberg is a Kreis in the southern part of Bavaria, Germany. Neighboring districts are F?rstenfeldbruck , Munich , Bad T?lz-Wolfratshausen, Weilheim-Schongau and Landsberg ....
(Oberbayern) in Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
, in the municipality Andechs

Andechs

The Benedictine abbey of Andechs is a former place of pilgrimage on a hill east of the Ammersee in the Starnberg in Germany, in the municipality Andechs....
. Andechs Abbey is famed for its flamboyant Baroque church (1712) and its brewery. Composer Carl Orff

Carl Orff

Carl Orff was a 20th-century Germany composer, most famous for his composition Carmina Burana . He has also become very influential in the field of music education for his pedagogy methods, which survive through Orff Schulwerk....
is buried in the church.

site of Andechs was originally occupied by a castle belonging to the counts of Dießen on the Ammersee

Ammersee

Ammersee is a lake in Upper Bavaria, Germany located southwest of Munich between the towns of Herrsching and Die?en am Ammersee. With a surface area of approximately , it is the sixth largest lake in Germany....
, probably built on a Roman castra, and remained the seat of the powerful counts of Dießen-Andechs (1135 to 1180) and dukes of Andechs-Meranien (1180 to 1248).

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Andechs

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Counts and dukes of Andechs

The site of Andechs was originally occupied by a castle belonging to the counts of Dießen on the Ammersee

Ammersee

Holy See

The Holy See is the episcopal jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome, commonly known as the Pope, and is the preeminent episcopal see of the Roman Catholic Church, forming the central government of the Church....
and removed to Andechs. Otto II of Andechs was bishop of Bamberg, 1177 – 1196. In 1208, when Philip of Swabia

Philip of Swabia

Philip of Swabia was king of Germany and duke of Swabia, the rival of the emperor Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor....
, King of the Germans, was assassinated at Bamberg by Otto of Wittelsbach

Wittelsbach

The Wittelsbach family is a European royal family and a Germany dynasty from Bavaria. Their major principal roles were as List of rulers of Bavaria , Electoral Palatinate , List of rulers of Brandenburg , Counts of Holland, County of Hainaut and Zeeland , List of bishops and archbishops of Cologne , Duchy of J?lich and Berg , Kings of Sweden...
, members of the house of Andechs were implicated, and the castle at Andechs was razed before the family was rehabilitated.

Saint Hedwig of Andechs

Hedwig of Andechs

Saint Hedwig of Andechs was a saint, the daughter of Berthold IV, Duke of Merania and his wife Agnes.She was born at at Castle Andechs, Bavaria....
(ca 1174 – October 1243) born at Andechs, was one of eight children born to Berthold IV, Count of Dießen-Andechs and Duke of Istria

Istria

File:Istria Croatian Adriatic.pngIstria , formerly Histria , is the largest peninsula in the Adriatic Sea. The peninsula is located at the head of the Adriatic between the Gulf of Trieste and the Bay of Kvarner....
. Of her four brothers, two became bishops, Ekbert of Bamberg (1203 – 1231), and Berthold, Patriarch of Aquileia

Aquileia

Aquileia is an ancient history Roman Republic city in what is now Italy, at the head of the Adriatic Sea at the edge of the lagoons, about 10 km from the sea, on the river Natiso , the course of which has changed somewhat since Roman times....
; Otto succeeded his father as Duke of Dalmatia, and Heinrich became Margrave of Istria. Of her three sisters, Gertrude of Andechs-Meran (1185–September 24, 1213) was the first wife of Andrew II of Hungary

Andrew II of Hungary

Andrew II the Jerosolimitan , King of Hungary . He was the younger son of King B?la III of Hungary, who invested him with the government of the Principality of Halych....
and the mother of St Elizabeth of Hungary; Mechtilde became Abbess of Kitzingen; while Agnes, a famous beauty, was made the unlawful wife of Philip Augustus of France in 1196, on the repudiation of his lawful wife, Ingeborg, but was dismissed in 1200, after Pope Innocent III

Pope Innocent III

Pope Innocent III was born in either 1160 or 1161, and died on July 16, 1216 at Perugia. He was born with the name Lotario de Conti, and he was pope from January 8, 1198 until his death....
laid France under an interdict.

When the dukes of Andechs-Meran were extinguished in the direct male line in 1248, the entire region was annexed by the bishop of Bamberg. A history of the house of Andechs was written by Joseph Hormayr Freiherr zu Hortenburg, the historian-statesman, and published in 1796.

The heilige Berg

In 955, relics which Rasso

Rasso

Saint Rasso of Andechs was a Bavarian count and military leader, pilgrim, and saint. He was the count of Andechs, leading the Bavarians against invading Magyars in the tenth century....
, count of Diessen, had brought from Rome and the Holy Land to his monastery at Wörth (later called Grafrath

Grafrath

Grafrath is a Municipalities of Germany in the district of F?rstenfeldbruck in Bavaria in Germany. It takes its name from Saint Rasso , who was a count who founded a Benedictine Order abbey here in the 10th century....
) had been transferred to this site to preserve them from the ravages of the Hungarians. In the 12th century three consecrated Hosts, two of which are reputed to have been consecrated by Pope Gregory I

Pope Gregory I

Pope Saint Gregory I or Gregory the Great was pope from 3 September 590 until his death.He is also known as Gregory the Dialogist in Eastern Orthodoxy because of his Dialogues....
the other by Pope Leo IX

Pope Leo IX

Pope Saint Leo IX , born Bruno of Eguisheim-Dagsburg , was Pope from February 12, 1049 to his death. He is regarded as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church, with the feast day of April 19....
were added to the relics at the heiligen Berg (holy mountain). The first documented pilgrimages to Andechs were in 1138, when count Berthold II ordered his subjects to make the journey to venerate the relics in the chapel of St Nicholas at the schloss. The legendary rediscovery of long-lost reliquaries in 1388 revived the ancient pilgrimage trade. The Andechs hosts were approved by Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa

Nicholas of Cusa

Nicholas of Kues was a Roman Catholic cardinal from Germany , a Philosophy, jurist, Mathematics, and an Astronomy. He is widely considered as one of the greatest geniuses and polymaths of the 15th century....
, otherwise a foe of such cults of wonder hosts.

The late-Gothic collegiate church which Duke Ernest I

Ernest, Duke of Bavaria

Ernest of Bavaria-Munich , , from 1397 Duke of Bavaria-Munich.Ernest was a son of John II, Duke of Bavaria and ruled the duchy of Bavaria-Munich together with his brother William III, Duke of Bavaria....
(1392 – 1438) had erected in 1423 was changed into a Benedictine monastery by Duke Albert III

Albert III, Duke of Bavaria

Albert III of Bavaria-Munich , , since 1438 Duke of Bavaria-Munich. He was born to Ernest, Duke of Bavaria and Elisabetta Visconti, daughter of Bernab? Visconti....
in 1455, and filled with monks from Tegernsee Abbey

Tegernsee Abbey

Tegernsee Abbey or the Imperial Abbey of Tegernsee is a former Order of St. Benedict monastery in the town and district of Tegernsee in Bavaria....
. In 1458 it was raised to an abbey, and thenceforth enjoyed a period of uninterrupted prosperity, completely remodelled in Baroque

Baroque

In the the arts, the Baroque was a Western cultural Epoch , starting roughly at the beginning of the 17th century in Rome, Italy. It was exemplified by drama and grandeur in Baroque sculpture, Baroque painting, literature, Baroque dance, and Baroque music....
style in 1712, and forming part of the Hofmark Erling (Heiliger Berg Andechs) until its secularization in 1803. It was refounded in 1850 as a Benedictine priory, affiliated to the Abbey of St Boniface

St. Boniface's Abbey, Munich

St. Boniface's Abbey is a Benedictine order monastery in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. It was founded in 1835 by King Ludwig I of Bavaria, as a part of his efforts to reanimate the country's spiritual life by the restoration of the monasteries destroyed during the secularisation of the early 19th century....
in Munich

Munich

Munich is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. Munich is located on the River Isar north of the Northern Limestone Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg....
. The present church dates from the 18th century. The composer Carl Orff

Carl Orff

Carl Orff was a 20th-century Germany composer, most famous for his composition Carmina Burana . He has also become very influential in the field of music education for his pedagogy methods, which survive through Orff Schulwerk....
is buried there.

Erling, huddled at the foot of the abbey was created an independent town in 1818. Erling, Frieding and Machtlfing were united in 1978 as the Gemeinde Andechs.

Burials

Carl Orff
Carl Orff

Carl Orff was a 20th-century Germany composer, most famous for his composition Carmina Burana . He has also become very influential in the field of music education for his pedagogy methods, which survive through Orff Schulwerk....
Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria
Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria

Albrecht Luitpold Ferdinand Michael, Duke of Bavaria, of Franconia and in Swabia, Count Palatine of the Rhine , was the son of Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria and his first wife, Duchess Marie Gabrielle in Bavaria....

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