Monastery Au Am Inn

According to legend, around 780, two monks - Baldung (Baldwin) and Grodbert - founded the first cell on the site of the future monastery: this Benedictine monastery fell apart in the X century. In 1122, the Archbishop of Salzburg, Conrad I, founded the Augustinian monastery ^[1] , dedicated to Saints Mary, Roman Felicate and Vitaly of Milan , on the land of the local lord - Count Cuno von Megling. The local church was consecrated in 1133: after a major overhaul associated with major damage, the church was re-consecrated in 1269.

In 1686, about a thousand ancient manuscripts were lost as a result of a fire in the monastery library. Since 1686, the expansion of the monastery’s building complex, which had begun earlier, continued, and by 1711 it became a “castle-like” Baroque complex with several courtyards and the double bell tower of the collegiate church of St. Mary towering on them. By the middle of the 18th century, the interior was complemented by ceiling frescoes and altars , authored by the master Franz Mareis from Wasserburg . Around 1690, 17 monks lived in the Au community, and by 1705 their number increased to 21.

The monastery was dissolved during secularization in Bavaria , which took place in 1803: 18 monks were expelled, and the monastery church became a parish. Then the complex of monastic buildings passed into private ownership - the property of the historian and writer Joseph Ernst von Koch-Sternfeld; 605 books of the monastery library went to the university library in Landshut . In 1853, the nuns were occupied by the Franciscan nuns from the city of Dillingen an der Donau : a year later, an independent society of Franciscan nuns from the Au-am-Inn community was founded. Franciscan women devoted themselves to the development of local education: the “break” in their activities was associated with the coming to power of the National Socialists in Germany .

From a special monastery school, founded in 1970, then a medical educational institution was created - as well as a specialized school, a boarding house and an orphanage for children with mental and physical disabilities. Local nuns have also established several branches in Brazil . Today, a typical beer restaurant is located next to the monastery, and the monastery church and its surroundings have become a popular area of ​​local tourism: every year in mid-November there is a large pottery fair.

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The new organ in the old organ case, created in the 18th century, was built in 2004 by craftsmen from the Swiss company Mathis Orgelbau AG ( Nefels ): a mechanical “baroque” instrument has 21 registers and about 2000 pipes.

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