Andechs

Andechs is a German village Bavarois to 40 km in the western south of Munich with surroundings 2500 inhabitants and famous Abbaye (abbey of monk Trappist of Andechs, manufactures traditional Bière)

Trappist abbey of Andechs

  • the founded Abbaye of Andechs in 1455 is one of most famous the German Abbaye Bavaroise with surroundings 30 monks Bénédictin about St Benoit perched on a height dominating the Lac Ammersee

  • the abbey and its church built in 1712 are masterpieces of architecture Baroque and Rococo

  • It also has a reputation of " Mecque" Bavarian by the pilgrims amateurs of beer of tradition with its monastic Brewery of Beer of abbey of tradition and reputation of which it produces 115000 hectolitres per annum with 20 million €uro S of annual sales turnover (figure 2006)

  • the Abbaye of Andechs also manufactures Beurre, Fromage and artisanal Pain

  • It is a high place of Pèlerinage Bavarian, of Tourisme and Sunday walk

  • It also organizes international Séminaire S spiritual for managers of company (spiritual management of the Stress)

History - Counts and Dukes of Andechs

  • the village was occupied in its history by a strong Château or lived powerful Count S of Diessen-Andechs and Duc S of Andechs-Méranien Margrave S (see Duché of Andechs)

  • In 1132 the count made whose of this ancestral site to the the Holy See and Andechs

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  • In 1208 the German emperor Philippe de Souabe was assassinated with Bamberg (250 km in the north of Andechs) by its rival the emperor German emperor Otton IV of Brunswick and of the family members of lords of Andechs were implied. The castle of Andechs is then entierment shaven before the family is not rehabilitated later

  • In 1248 extinction of the direct line of the counts and duke of Andechs and the duchy of Andechs entirely was annexed by éveché of Bamberg (250 km in the north of Andechs)

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  • Official website

  • To locate Andechs in Germany on a chart

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