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3 unusual facts about Scheyern Abbey


Scheyern Abbey

Scheyern Abbey, formerly also Scheyern Priory (Kloster Scheyern) is a house of the Benedictine Order in Scheyern in Bavaria.

The monastery at Scheyern was established in 1119 as the final site of the community originally founded in around 1077 at Bayrischzell by Countess Haziga of Aragon, wife of Otto II, Count of Scheyern, the ancestors of the Wittelsbachs.

It was replaced however in 1970 by the Schyrengymnasium in Pfaffenhofen.



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