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MonasterySankt Salvator
St. Salvator Abbey
The St. Salvator Griesbach Monastery is a former Premonstratensian monastery in Griesbach im Rottal in Bavaria in the Diocese of Passau. The village of Sankt Salvator, which grew around the monastery, is a district of the city.
The monastery, dedicated to St. Salvator, was founded in 1289 by Wernhard and Friedrich Pöringer. Until 1309, it was a hermitage, then a Premonstratensian monastery. It was dissolved in 1803 during the secularization. Parts of the monastery buildings were demolished. In 1834, a curacy and school were housed in a part of the east wing, and a brewery was established in another part of the preserved monastery buildings. Allegedly, the recipe for the famous Munich Paulaner-Salvator beer originated from the brewery of St. Salvator Monastery. In 1892, a new school was built, and the former monastery church became the parish church of St. Salvator parish in 1902.
The former monastery church+
The church was built after a monastery fire in 1632 until 1645 by the Italian master builder Bartolomeo Viscardi under Abbot Michael Lantzensperger. In 1703, the abbey burned down. The church could only be completed again in 1751. It is a wall-pillar church with frescoes by Franz Anton Rauscher. The figures of saints were created by Joseph Deutschmann. The high altar from 1640 was redesigned by him in 1782. It depicts the Ascension of Christ. The other altars are located in six side chapels. First, Mary with the Child, on the other side Mary with her mother Anna. Then follow the altars of St. Norbert and St. Erasmus, followed by those of St. Florian and St. Sebastian.
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