The Weltenberg Abbey was reachable by small boat after an hour cruise up the Danube. The church was beautiful.
It was first established about 620 AD. It took the rules of the Benedictine Order in the first half of the 8th century. The brewery is estimated to be the oldest monastic brewery in the world. It started about 1080.
That's quite an altar.
It was first established about 620 AD. It took the rules of the Benedictine Order in the first half of the 8th century. The brewery is estimated to be the oldest monastic brewery in the world. It started about 1080.
The abbey church was first consecrated in 1191 with a single nave building with a crypt. In the early 1700's it was renovated into the more Baroque building style that is so prevalent across Europe.
Services were going on when I stopped. But, after the services, we were permitted to walk in and take photographs.
That's quite an altar.
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