Niederaltaich Abbey or Niederaltaich Monastery (Abtei or Kloster Niederaltaich) is a house of the Benedictine Order founded in 731 (or possibly 741), situated in the village of Niederalteich on the Danube in Bavaria. This article concerns Roman Catholic Order of Saint Benedict see also Benedictine Confederation and Benedictine. Events By Place Europe Bede completes his Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum. This article is about the year 741 For the 741 Integrated circuit, see Operational amplifier. Niederalteich is a village on the Danube in Bavaria. Germany. The Danube (In Donau from earlier Danuvius, Celtic *dānu, meaning "to flow run" Slovak and Polish Dunaj Bavaria ( German:, with an area of 70553 Km² (27241 square miles and almost 12

Engraving of Niederaltaich Abbey from the "Churbaierischen Atlas" of Anton Wilhelm Ertl 1687

Note: "Niederaltaich" is the conventional spelling of the monastery, "Niederalteich" of the village).

Foundation and early history

After its foundation in 731 (or 741) by Duke Odilo of Bavaria, the monastery, dedicated to Saint Maurice, was settled by monks from Reichenau Abbey under Saint Pirmin. Odilo (d 18 January 748) a son of Gotfrid of the house of Agilolfing, ruled Bavaria from 736 until his death in 748 succeeding Duke Saint Maurice (also Moritz, Morris, or Mauritius) was the leader of the legendary Roman Theban Legion in the 3rd century and one of the Reichenau Island lies in Lake Constance in southern Germany, at approximately. Saint Pirmin (ca 670 - Hornbach 753 also named Pirminius, was a monk strongly influenced by Celtic Christianity and Saint Amand. Eberswind, the first abbot, is considered the compiler of the "Lex Baiuvariorum", the first code of law of the Bavarian people. The Lex Baiuvariorum (also Lex Baiuwariorum, Lex Bajuvariorum, or Lex Baivariorum) was a collection of the tribal laws of the Bavarii

The monastery brought great areas of Lower Bavaria into cultivation as far as the territory of the present Czech Republic, and founded 120 settlements in the Bavarian Forest. Lower Bavaria (Niederbayern is one of the seven administrative regions of Bavaria, Germany, located in the east of the state The Czech Republic ( ˈt͡ʃɛskaː ˈrɛpuˌblɪka short form in Česko ˈt͡ʃɛskɔ also called Czechia, The Bavarian Forest ( German:) is a wooded low-mountain region in Bavaria, Germany. In the reigns of Charlemagne and Louis the German the abbey extended its possessions as far as the Wachau. Charlemagne (ˈʃɑrlɨmeɪn Carolus Magnus or Karolus Magnus meaning Charles the Great) (747 – 28 January 814 was King of the Franks from 768 to his Louis (also Ludwig or Lewis) the German (also known as Louis II or Louis the Bavarian) (806 &ndash August 28, 876 The Wachau (vaˈxaʊ is an Austrian valley with a landscape of high visibility formed by the Danube river Abbot Gozbald (825-855) was the latter's arch-chancellor.

In 848 the monastery received the right of free election of its abbots, and in 857 became reichsunmittelbar (that is, free of all territorial lordship except that of the monarchy itself). Events By Place Europe The Saracens destroy Leontini. Charles the Bald, Louis the German and Events By Place Europe The Vikings raid Dorestad. Byzantine Empire Michael III By the end of the 9th century over 50 monks had become abbots in other monasteries or been appointed bishops. The 9th century is the period from 801 to 900 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Christian / Common Era. The 10th century however brought the turmoil of the Hungarian incursions, and between 950 and 990 the monastery was a residential foundation (Kollegiatstift). Hungary (Magyarország 'mɔɟɔrorsaːg) officially in English the Republic of Hungary ( Magyar Köztársaság, literally Magyar (Hungarian Republic Events By Place Europe Duke Boleslav I of Bohemia makes peace with Otto I. Events By Place Africa Construction of the Al-Hakim Mosque begins in Cairo.

Under Abbot Gotthard or Godehard of Hildesheim (996-1022), better known as Saint Gotthard, the monastery entered a renewed golden age. is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located in the district of Hildesheim, about 30 km southeast of Hanover on the banks of the Innerste Saint Gotthard, who along with Duke Henry of Bavaria, later Emperor Henry II, was a key supporter of contemporary monastic reform, was probably the abbey's best-known abbot. Saint Henry II ( May 6, 973 &ndash July 13, 1024) called the Holy or the Saint, was the fifth and last Holy He later became Bishop of Hildesheim, where he was buried. The Bishopric of Hildesheim was a state of the Holy Roman Empire from the Middle Ages until 1803.

The abbey was granted by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa to the Bishop of Bamberg in 1152, and as a consequence lost its reichsunmittelbar status. Frederick II ( December 26, 1194 &ndash December 13, 1250) of the Hohenstaufen dynasty was a Pretender to the title In 1242 the Wittelsbachs inherited from the Counts of Bogen the office of Vogt (lord protector) of the abbey. The Wittelsbach family is a European Royal family and a German dynasty from Bavaria. Bogen may refer to the following locations Bogen Evenes in Evenes municipality Nordland, Norway Bogen Steigen This article is about the title Vogt For the surname see Vogt (surname.

Important abbots from this time on were Hermann (in office from 1242 to 1273), the author of the "Annales Hermanni", and the Reformation abbots Kilian Weybeck (1503 to 1534) and Paulus Gmainer (1550 to 1585). The Protestant Reformation was a reform movement in Europe that began in 1517 though its roots lie further back in time Vitus Bacheneder, abbot between 1651 and 1666, created after the Thirty Years' War the foundations of the economic prosperity of the abbey in the Baroque period. For the Mauritanian Thirty Years' War see Char Bouba war. For the band see The 30 Years War. Baroque art redirects here Please disambiguate such links to Baroque painting, Baroque sculpture, etc Under Abbot Joscio Hamberger (1700–1739) the creation of the Baroque abbey and church took place, as well as the construction of the school. Baroque architecture, starting in the early 17th century in Italy, took the humanist Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical The church was the first commission for the later famous Baroque architect Johann Michael Fischer, who worked on it from 1724–1726. Johann Michael Fischer (born 18 February 1692, Burglengenfeld, Upper Palatinate; died 6 May 1766 in Munich)

Later history

The abbey was dissolved at the secularisation of Bavaria in 1803. 1803 ( MDCCCIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a A fire in the church in 1813, caused by a bolt of lightning, signalled the beginning of the demolition of the Baroque complex. Year 1813 ( MDCCCXIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common The monastery buildings were sold off to private individuals. The side chapels of the abbey church, the Gothic cloisters and adjoining buildings, as well as the parish church, were demolished. See also Gothic art Gothic architecture is a style of Architecture which flourished during the high and late medieval period.

In 1918, with the help of a legacy from the theology professor Franz Xaver Knabenbauer, a native of Niederalteich, a monastery was re-established here and settled from Metten Abbey. Year 1918 ( MCMXVIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Metten Abbey, or the Abbey of St Michael at Metten (in German Abtei Metten or Kloster Metten) is a house of the Benedictine Order in In 1932 the monastery church received from the pope the title of "Basilica minor". Year 1932 ( MCMXXXII) was a Leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. History See also History of the Papacy Catholics recognize the Pope as a successor to Saint Peter, who Jesus named as the "shepherd" and The Latin word basilica (derived from Greek, Basiliké Stoà, Royal Stoa) was originally used to describe a Roman In 1949, under Abbot Emmanuel Maria Heufelder, the monastery became once again an independent abbey. Year 1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

In 1946 the St. -Gotthard-Gymnasium ("St. -Gotthard-Grammar School") was refounded after having been closed by the Nazis. The remaining parts of the Baroque buildings were incorporated into new buildings in 1953–1954 and gradually renovated. In 1959 the Katholische Landvolkshochschule ("Catholic State Secondary School") was established here, and between 1971 and 1973 a new school building was erected for the St. The year 1959 ( MCMLIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. -Gotthard-Gymnasium because the number of pupils had continually risen in the 1960s. Its boarding facilities, however, were shut down in 1994 and converted in 1999–2001 into the St. Pirmin Conference and Hospitality Centre. In 2006 and 2007 the school building of the St. -Gotthard-Gymnasium was refurbished. As a consequence, the school itself is transformed into a school that offers obligatory lessons from 7. 45 am till 4. 00 pm (a so-called Ganztagsschule) at the moment.

Niederaltaich has been a member of the Bavarian Congregation of the Benedictine Confederation since its re-foundation in 1918. The Bavarian Congregation is a congregation of the Benedictine Confederation consisting (with one exception of monasteries in Bavaria, Germany. This article is about the organizational structure of the Order of Saint Benedict within the Roman Catholic Church.

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Ecumenism

In 1924 Pope Pius XI gave the Benedictines the task of making the theology and spirituality of the east known in the west. Year 1924 ( MCMXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Pope Pius XI ( Latin: Pius PP XI; Italian: Pio XI; May 31 1857 &ndash February 10 1939) born Niederaltaich, as a consequence of these ecumenical goals, has since been a monastery of two ecclesasiatical traditions or rites, one part of the monks living and praying according to the Roman rite, the other part according to the Byzantine rite.

The Eucharist and the Divine Office are celebrated by the monks in the German language in both rites, and in addition, liturgical texts from Church Slavonic and Greek have also been translated. The Eucharist, also called Holy Communion or Lord's Supper and other names is a Christian Sacrament by which in a common interpretation those The German language (de ''Deutsch'') is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages. Church Slavonic (also Church Slavic, Old Bulgarian) is the Liturgical language of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Macedonian Orthodox Greek (el ελληνική γλώσσα or simply el ελληνικά — "Hellenic" is an Indo-European language, spoken today by 15-22 million people mainly

In 1986 a church and a chapel, both dedicated to Bishop Nicholas of Myra (Saint Nicholas), were set up for the celebration of the Byzantine rite in the buildings of the former monastery brewery. Saint Nicholas (Άγιος Νικόλαος, Agios Nikolaos, "victory of the people" is the common name for Nicholas of Myra, a Christian Saint

External links

• (German)Kloster Niederaltaich
• (German)Förderverein für die Byzantinische Kirche
• (German)St.-Gotthard-Gymnasium
• (German)Klöster in Bayern: Niederaltaich