Scheyern Abbey
Scheyern Abbey, formerly also Scheyern Priory (
.First foundation
The monastery at Scheyern was established in 1119 as the final site of the community founded in around 1077 at
When Haziga, the widowed Countess of Scheyern, left Burg Scheyern in 1119 for
Scheyern was considered a Wittelsbach
The dedication is to the
By the 13th century the abbey had already gained a reputation for its school of illumination and its scriptorium.[1] It suffered particularly severely in the Thirty Years' War and did not participate afterwards in the Baroque revival to the same extent as other monasteries in Bavaria. In the 18th century however it was refurbished in the style of the Rococo.
On 15 November 1802 the monastery came under the governance of the territorial rulers, and on 21 March 1803 was dissolved as part of the secularisation of Bavaria. The buildings were sold, and changed hands several times in a short period.
Second foundation
In 1838 however under Ludwig I of Bavaria the monastery was re-established, and re-settled by monks from Metten Abbey; in 1843 it regained the status of an abbey. Between 1876 and 1878 the church, now serving both the community and the parish, was restored to the Romanesque style.
Scheyern now also possesses a Byzantine Institute, specialising in the works of Saint John of Damascus. It also enjoys historical links with Hungary.
Scheyern Abbey is a member of the Bavarian Congregation of the Benedictine Confederation.
Schools
Shortly after the re-establishment in 1838, a grammar school was opened. In 1939 all schools run by religious orders were closed, including Scheyern Abbey's. After World War II a humanistic Gymnasium was opened here. It was replaced however in 1970 by the Schyrengymnasium in Pfaffenhofen. Once the transfer to the new school was complete, the monastery set up a residential high school for vocational training, the Staatliche Berufsoberschule, a type of school which was considered very experimental at the time. It opened in 1976 and is still in operation.
Burials
- Otto I of Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria
- Louis I, Duke of Bavaria
- Otto II Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria
References
- ^ McQuillen, J. T. (2013). "Fifteenth-Century Book Networks: Scribes, Illuminators, Binders, and the Introduction of Print." Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America. 107(4), 495–515.
External links
- Scheyern Abbey website (in German)
- Klöster in Bayern: Scheyern (in German)