Ottobeuren Abbey

Ottobeuren Abbey is a Benedictine Abbey founded in the 8th century. It offers one of the richest concert programmes in Bavaria.

About this building

This was one of the self-ruling imperial abbeys of the Holy Roman Empire, meaning that it was independent of any local authority according to German feudal law. The Abbey disappeared for a few decades after the secularization carried out in 1802 in the Bavaria region. It was re-founded by King Ludwig I of Bavaria in 1834, who restored it to the status of an independent abbey.

It has one of the most beautiful baroque churches in southern Germany. It also includes a museum and a monastery shop. 

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St. Lorenz's Basilica

St. Lorenz's Basilica is the former church of the Benedictine monastery of the princely abbey of Kempten, which has now been abolished. While the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) was still going on, the then 29-year-old Abbot Roman Giel von Gielsberg began preparations for the construction of the church. The church became one of the first large church buildings after the Thirty Years' War in Germany.

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Gallus Chapel of Winterberg

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St. Martin's Church

The church of St. Martin was probably founded around 1100 as a Romanesque church and replaced by a Gothic building between 1320 and 1370. At the time of the Reformation, the Simultaneum (a policy allowing public worship by the followers of two or more religious groups in the same church: Simultankirche) was established for St. Martin's Church, and Protestants and Catholics shared the church since 13 August 1548. This was especially true for the nave, the choir remaining purely Roman Catholic. This condition was established by the Peace of Westphalia, which referred to the normal year 1624, and still exists today. According to the land register, the owner of the parish church is the Gemeinschaftliche Kirchenpflege Biberach.