Attel Abbey, Benedictine monastery in Wasserburg am Inn, Germany

Attel Abbey is a former Benedictine monastery in Wasserburg am Inn that comprises a group of stone buildings situated near the river. The complex combines older foundations with Baroque additions and currently houses a residential facility that continues the monastic tradition.

Founded around 1037 by Count Arnold of Diessen-Andechs, the abbey lapsed and was restored in 1137 under Count Engelbert of Limburg. From 1452 the Melker Reform brought a period of prosperity; the abbey was dissolved in 1803 during secularisation. In 1874 the Brothers Hospitallers took over the remaining buildings as a home for disabled men, until the National Socialists closed it in 1940.

The parish church of St. Michael, the former abbey church, was rebuilt from 1713 under Abbot Cajetan Scheyerl by Thomas Mayr and consecrated in 1715. Its interior was furnished under Abbot Nonnosus Moser in a transition between Rococo and classicism. The high altar of 1731 holds a copy of Rubens's Apocalyptic Woman by Brother Leander Laubacher, flanked by Saints Benedict and Scholastica.

The site is easy to view from outside but is now privately owned and functions as a residential facility. Your best option is to take a walk around the exterior and enjoy the view of the structure from the river or surrounding paths.

The abbey church, rebuilt from 1713 under Abbot Cajetan Scheyerl and consecrated in 1715, keeps a cross altar by Constantin Pader dated 1665, holding a 13th-century crucifix. Its organ, built in 2013, reuses the case and some pipes of an instrument by Anton Bayr from 1769.