Braunau in Rohr Abbey, Benedictine monastery in Rohr in Niederbayern, Germany.
Braunau in Rohr Abbey is a Benedictine monastery in the village of Rohr in Niederbayern, Bavaria, built around a baroque abbey church with one of the most unusual high altars in the region. The monastery complex also houses a secondary school and is set in a rural part of Lower Bavaria.
The monastery was founded in 1133 by Adalbert of Rohr and for centuries was a center of Benedictine monastic life in Lower Bavaria. It was dissolved in 1803 during the wave of secularization that swept through Bavaria, ending a period of activity that had lasted nearly 700 years.
The high altar in the abbey church shows the Assumption of Mary through life-sized figures arranged as if on a stage, a style typical of baroque religious art in Bavaria. This theatrical way of presenting a biblical scene was meant to move the faithful as much as any sermon.
The abbey sits in the center of the village and can be reached on foot from the surrounding area without difficulty. Because a school operates within the complex, some parts of the grounds may not be open to visitors during school hours.
The monks who brought the community back to life after World War II came from Broumov in Bohemia, now part of the Czech Republic, having been expelled from their original monastery. They rebuilt the east wing of the complex to make the site livable again and carried their traditions with them into their new home.
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