The façade of Ottobeuren Basilica,
designed by Johann Michael Fischer, has been
hailed as the pinnacle of Bavarian Baroque architecture.
Photo: 21 June 2019.
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Photo: 21 June 2019.
Source. Own work.
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Attribution: Diego Delso.
Author: Diego Delso.
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Ottobeuren is a Benedictine Abbey, in Ottobeuren, near Memmingen, in the Bavarian Allgäu, Germany.
For part of its history Ottobeuren Abbey was one of the approximately forty self-ruling Imperial Abbeys of the Holy Roman Empire and, as such, was a virtually Independent State.
At the time of its dissolution in 1802, the Imperial Abbey covered 266 square kilometers (sixty-six thousand acres) and had about 10,000 subjects.
Ottobeuren Abbey.
Bavaria, Germany.
Photo: 21 June 2019.
Source: Own work.
Attribution: Diego Delso.
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Author: Diego Delso.
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In the 11th-Century, its discipline was on the decline, until Abbot Adalhalm (1082 – 1094) introduced the Hirsau Reform.
The same Abbot began a restoration of the decaying buildings, which was completed along with the addition of a Convent for noble women, by his successor, Abbot Rupert I (1102 – 1145).
Under the rule of the latter, the newly-Founded Marienberg Abbey was recruited with Monks from Ottobeuren Abbey.
PART TWO FOLLOWS.
