Abbey
MonasteryTettenweis
Tettenweis Abbey
The Benedictine Abbey of St. Gertrud is a monastery of Benedictine nuns in Tettenweis in the Diocese of Passau.
The former Hofmark castle on the outskirts of Tettenweis was built in 1797 by Count Franz Xaver Peter von Joner in place of a modest predecessor castle. Count Max von Löwenstein-Scharffeneck (father of Hubertus Prince zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg) bought this castle in 1896, but sold it as early as 1899 to the Frauenchiemsee Abbey, which founded a Benedictine daughter monastery there in the same year. From 1902, the property was further expanded in the Neo-Romanesque style. The monastery church was built in 1949.
The elevation of the Priory of St. Gertrud to an abbey took place on October 28, 1924. The first abbess was the former prioress M. Editha Gaßlhuber. Since 1987, the monastery has been a member of the newly founded Federation of Bavarian Benedictine Abbeys.
Activities+
The Benedictine nuns of Tettenweis currently operate a kindergarten, a guesthouse, and a monastery shop. A quilt sewing workshop, a wax studio, and in-house noodle production also secure the economic existence of the spiritual community.
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