Höglwörth Abbey

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Höglwörth Abbey (Kloster Höglwörth) is a former Augustinian Canons monastery near Anger in Bavaria, Germany. It sits on a peninsula in Lake Höglwörth. The monastery was founded in 1125 by Archbishop Conrad I of Salzburg and is dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul. It was the only Bavarian monastery spared from the secularization of 1802–1803, and this status lasted until 1816, when the Rupertiwinkel area joined Bavaria. The last provost, Gilbert Grab, asked for relief in 1813; the King granted it in 1816. On 30 July 1817 it became privately owned. The church, rebuilt in Rococo style from 1675, keeps the choir from the old Romanesque church. Wörth means island, and the site was originally an island; sediment has turned it into a peninsula, though old maps still show it as an island. The abbey and its Rococo church on the peninsula are regarded as one of the finest ensembles in eastern Upper Bavaria.