Wessobrunn Abbey information

Wessobrunn Abbey (Kloster Wessobrunn) was a Benedictine monastery near Weilheim in Bavaria, Germany. It is celebrated as the home of the famous Wessobrunn...

Diemudus, Diemut, Diemud, Diemuth, Diemod or Diemudis) was a recluse at Wessobrunn Abbey in Upper Bavaria, Germany, born around 1060 and died on 30 March, probably...

named after Wessobrunn Abbey, a Benedictine monastery in Bavaria, where the sole manuscript containing the text was formerly kept. The abbey was dissolved...

beginning at the end of the 17th century, developed in the Benedictine Wessobrunn Abbey in Bavaria, Germany. The names of more than 600 stucco-workers who...

century, when the Bavarian duke Tassilo III (748–788) gave Reisbach to Wessobrunn Abbey in 760. At this place a church synod took place in 798/799. Wolfsindis...

important late Gothic abbey church with early Baroque stucco work by the Wessobrunn stuccoist Georg Schmuzer is now the parish church. Part of what few buildings...

Abbey Thierhaupten Abbey Weihenstephan Abbey Weissenohe Abbey Weltenburg Abbey Wessobrunn Abbey All these monasteries were dissolved in 1803, however,...

Center Hüll. Wolnzach was first mentioned in the foundation document of Wessobrunn Abbey in 756, by the name of Wolamotesaha. In 1150 there occurs the first...

mentioned around 1141 on the occasion of a transfer of ownership to Wessobrunn Abbey, where it is recorded as Durchholsen. In the oldest Bavarian ducal...

Bernini. The decoration was primarily carried out by Josef Schmutzer of the Wessobrunn School of stuccoists and Johann Baptist Straub, who was responsible for...

Baroque artists of the Wessobrunner School. Feuchtmayer was born in Wessobrunn Abbey. A sculptor and stuccoist, he (along with his brother Johann Michael)...

professor of history in Munich. In 1861 he bought the partially destroyed Wessobrunn Abbey, which was then being used as a quarry, in order to preserve it for...

by the Wessobrunn School, created in 1713. The other monastery buildings in the Baroque style are also from the 18th century. Bellelay Abbey is the home...

princess, founded Carthage Diemud About 1060 Germany Hrosvitha Recluse at Wessobrunn Abbey in Upper Bavaria, Germany. Diotima Ancient times Greece Aspasia Philosopher...

1455, monks of Tegernsee settled Andechs Abbey and were appointed abbots at Benediktbeuern, Oberalteich, Wessobrunn and others. In 1446, a Passion altar was...

architect and stuccoist. Dominikus Zimmermann was born in Gaispoint near Wessobrunn in 1685 and became a Baumeister (Architect) and a stuccoist. His older...

Humanities in Ratisbon and Freising. He took vows at the Benedictine Abbey of Wessobrunn, on 15 November 1733, and was ordained priest on 27 October 1731...

stucco plasterer during the Baroque. Zimmermann was born in Gaispoint, Wessobrunn. He and his brother Dominikus Zimmermann were descended from an artist...

refurbishment of the monastery church was carried out in 1755-56 by the Wessobrunn stuccoist Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer the Elder, possibly following plans...

abbey church (designed by Fischer) of Ottobeuren is considered his crowning achievement. Feuchtmayer was born into a family of artists in Wessobrunn,...

whom little is known, many monasteries were established, e.g. the abbeys of Wessobrunn, Ellwangen, Polling and Ottobeuren. At this time, also, the see,...

Romanesque period is represented by stone sculptures from the monastery of Wessobrunn and the marble lions from Reichenhall. Important pieces of Romanesque...

Wissembourg 661 Dragobodo Weltenburg Abbey Weltenburg c. 617 Agilus and Eustace Werden Abbey Werden 799 Ludger Wessobrun Abbey Wessobrunn 753 Tassilo III...

stucco plasterer of the Wessobrunner School. Feuchtmayer was born in Wessobrunn, Bavaria. A member of the famous Feuchtmayer family, he was the son of...