Bergen Abbey

Bergen Monastery is a former Benedictine nunnery in Bergen near Neuburg an der Donau in Bavaria, within the Diocese of Eichstätt.

The monastery was founded in 976 by Wiltrud von Bergen, the widow of Duke Berthold of Bavaria. Its property was confiscated in 1542 by Ottheinrich von Pfalz-Neuburg during the Reformation.

After the re-Catholicization of the area, Wolfgang Wilhelm von Pfalz-Neuburg handed over the monastery to the Jesuits of Neuburg in 1635. They partially demolished the monastery buildings and used the material for the Jesuit seminary in Neuburg an der Donau.

On the site of the Romanesque hall church from the 11th century, the church was rebuilt in 1755 in the Rococo style. The ceiling painting of the Holy Cross Church is the most significant work of the Augsburg painter Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner (1712–1761).

Remains of the original church have been preserved in the crypt, as has the tower, which, however, was rebuilt in 1799. Besides the former monastery church and the tower, the old chaplaincy from 1431 and the one-kilometer-long natural stone monastery wall from the 14th century are still preserved today.