Beautiful Bavaria-Ettal, Schloss Linderhof, Oberammergau, Garmisch-Partenkirchen HD
Beautiful Bavaria-a two day visit to Ammergau Alps, from Munich to Ettal, Schloss/Palace Linderhof, Oberammergau and Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
Ettal is a small town in the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Ettal is best known for its Benedictine Abbey/monastery, founded on 28 April 1330 by Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian. The construction of the church was completed in 1370- In 1744, the abbey and the abbey church were largely destroyed in a fire. It was completely redesigned and spectacularly rebuilt in the Baroque style by Enrico Zuccalli, a Swiss-Italian architect working in Munich, who had studied with Bernini. The decoration was primarily carried out by Josef Schmutzer of the Wessobrunn School of stuccoists and Johann Baptist Straub, who was responsible for the altars and the chancel. The monastery runs a brewery, a distillery, a bookstore, an art publishing house, a hotel, a cheese factory joint venture, and several smaller companies. The distillery produces Ettaler Kloster Liqueur, a herbal liqueur which, like that of the Carthusian monks, comes in sweeter yellow and more herbal green varieties.
Oberammergau is famous as the town of the wood carvers and as the home of the Passion Plays which take place every ten years. Next, 42nd, will be held in 2020.
The wood carving trade dates back to the middle ages. Today there are still around 60 active wood carvers. Another, not a bit less important reason for Oberammergau to be world famous is 'Lüftlmalerei', a technique of painting the facades, originally applied for decorating the baroque facades in Italy and Southern Germany. The name of the technique is probably derived from the fact that Franz Seraph Zwinck (1748-1792), probably the most well-known craftsman of his guild, lived in a house called 'Zum Lüftl' in Oberammergau.
Linderhof Palace (German: Schloss Linderhof), in southwest Bavaria near Ettal Abbey is the smallest of the three palaces built by King Ludwig II of Bavaria, the only one which he lived to see completed and the one in which he stayed more than anywhere else. The Royal Villa of Ludwig II, originated as a hunting lodge belonging to his father Maximilian II - the Königshäuschen. It was enlarged by Georg Dollmann between 1870 and 1872 with a U-shaped complex centred on the King's Bedchamber. Although Linderhof is much smaller than Versailles, it is evident that the palace of the Louis XIV (who was an idol for Ludwig) was its inspiration.
The Palace Park was completed from 1870 to 1880 from designs by Carl von Effner. Surrounding the palace are imitation baroque gardens and terraces and cascades in the Italian Renaissance style. The adjoining landscape garden continues into the mountain forest of the Ammergau Mountains.
Ludwig II introduced architectural features into the park based on the world of the Orient, such as the Moorish Kiosk and the Moroccan House, and on scenes from Wagner's music dramas such as the Venus Grotto, Hunding's Hut and the Hermitage of Gurnemanz.
The linden tree, from which the palace takes its name, is now 300 years old.
Garmisch-Partenkirchen is one of Germany's premier tourist holiday destinations and ski towns.. It lies a few kilometres from the Austrian border in the Oberbayern region, which borders Austria. Breathtakingly situated at the foot of Mount Zugspitze, Germany's highest mountain at 2,962 m (9,718 ft.) it offers tremendous hiking, skiing and biking opportunities. Garmisch-Partenkirchen was founded by uniting the towns Garmisch and Partenkirchen for the Winter Olympics 1936.
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Ettal Abbey is a Benedictine monastery in the village of Ettal close to Oberammergau and Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Bavaria, Germany. With a community (as of 2005) of more than 50 monks, with another five at Wechselburg, the Abbey is one of the largest Benedictine houses and is a major attraction for visitors.
History
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Middle Ages and Early Modern period
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Ettal Abbey was founded on 28 April 1330, Saint Vitalis of Milan's day, by Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian in the Graswang valley, in fulfilment of an vow, on his return from his coronation in Rome, on a site of strategic importance on the primary trade route between Italy and Augsburg. The foundation legend is that Ludwig's horse genuflected three times on the site of the original church building, where a marble statuette of the Madonna and Child (Frau Stifterin or the Ettal Madonna) now stands. The statuette was brought by Ludwig from Pisa as a gift for his new foundation. It soon became an object of pilgrimage.The church is dedicated to the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin.
The foundation originally consisted of a Benedictine double monastery – a community for men and another for women – and also a house of the Teutonic Knights.
The original Gothic abbey church, built between 1330 and 1370, was a modest structure in comparison to the great churches of medieval Bavaria.
The abbey suffered great damage during the Reformation at the hands of the troops of Maurice of Saxony, but survived the troubles of the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648).
Baroque expansion
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In 1709, under Abbot Placidus II Seiz, the golden age of Ettal began with the establishment of the Knights' Academy (Ritterakademie), which developed into a highly successful school and began the educational tradition of the abbey. In 1744, the abbey and the abbey church were largely destroyed in a fire. The subsequent spectacular re-building in the Baroque style, with a double-shelled dome, was to the plans of Enrico Zuccalli, a Swiss-Italian architect working in Munich, who had studied with Bernini. The decoration was primarily carried out by Josef Schmutzer of the Wessobrunn School of stuccoists and Johann Baptist Straub, who was responsible for the altars and the chancel.
Ettal's importance as a place of pilgrimage grew with the new buildings and it became one of the most important monasteries in the Alpine region.
Secularization
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The abbey was dissolved in 1803 during the secularization of church property in Bavaria. The site was acquired in 1809 by Josef von Elbing and sold by his descendants in 1856 to Count Pappenheim. Some small building works were completed during the 19th century, principally the renovation of the façade and the twin bell towers.
Second foundation
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In 1898, the buildings were acquired by Baron Theodor von Cramer-Klett and, in 1900, given to the Benedictines of Scheyern Abbey, who re-founded the monastery here. It has been a member of the Bavarian Congregation of the Benedictine Confederation since 1900. The abbey church of the Ascension was declared a basilica minor in 1920.
During the winter of 1940–1941, the German pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) spent some months at the monastery as the friend and guest of the Abbot. Like Bonhoeffer, a number of those in the Ettal community were involved in the conspiracy against Hitler. While at Ettal, Bonhoeffer also worked on his book Ethics. Catholic priest Rupert Mayer was kept at the Abbey under house arrest from 1939 to 1945 by the Nazis to prevent him from further anti-Nazi preaching.
In 1993 Ettal re-founded the former Wechselburg Abbey in Saxony, an old monastery of the Augustinian Canons, as a Benedictine priory.
Ettal maintains a Byzantine Institute. The abbot of Ettal, Joannes Hoeck, made a significant contribution on the role of Patriarchs in Church government at the Second Vatican Council.
In early 2010 ten priests at the Ettal Abbey boarding school were accused of sadistic beatings, molestation, or making sexual advances on boys as well as sadism. In March, 2010, authorities raided the monastery as part of a probe into allegations that priests sexually abused children there.[2] By an Apostolic Visitation and an independent investigation these allegations have been surveyed and consequences have been drafted. The major part of the abuses took place in the late 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s.
Places to see in ( Regensburg - Germany ) Alte Kapelle
Places to see in ( Regensburg - Germany ) Alte Kapelle
The Basilica of the Nativity of Our Lady also Basilica of the Nativity of Our Lady to the Ancient Chapel or Alten Kapelle It is the oldest catholic place of worship in Bavaria and one of the most important churches in the city of Regensburg, in the south of Germany.
The collegiate church and smaller basilica is part of an old abbey dedicated to the Virgin founded by the emperor Henry II, ruler of the Holy Roman Empire in the 1002. With a baroque style of the 18th century, it is one of the masterpieces of the rococo decoration in Europe, in the style dictated by the School of renown Wessobrunn.
A first chapel was built by order of Charlemagne in the place where, according to tradition, the Roman temple dedicated to Juno was built. The chapel which was built after the fall of the Roman Empire of the West seems to have been the oldest in Bavaria and this earned it the nickname Alte Kappelle, the «Old Chapel». In 1964, at the suggestion of Bishop Rudolf Graber, the Collegiate Church of Our Lady of the Old Chapel was elevated to a smaller basilica by Pope Paul VI.
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