Kloster Weyarn, Augustinian monastery in Weyarn, Germany
Kloster Weyarn is an Augustinian monastery in Upper Bavaria with roots in medieval times. The complex combines a church with multi-story residential and working buildings arranged around courtyards, displaying features typical of southern German religious architecture.
Count Siboto II of Falkenstein founded the monastery in 1133 on the site of Weyarn Castle, dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul, with the Salzburg cathedral chapter holding supervisory rights. Major fires in 1236 and 1356 destroyed nearly all of it; recovery came only in the late 14th century, marked from 1374 by a new early Gothic abbey church. The monastery was dissolved in 1803 during secularisation, and in 1806 canons bought back the convent wing while the prelature and refectory were demolished.
Since 1998 the complex has housed a convent of the German Brothers Province of the Teutonic Order, which also made Weyarn the seat of its province and of the Deutschordenswerke. The former Augustinian canons are gone; the church of St. Peter and Paul now serves as the parish church. In 2014 the order refurbished four apartments for the brothers living there, and the new priory was consecrated in summer 2018.
The former Stiftskirche St. Peter und Paul now serves as the parish church of Weyarn and is the part of the complex most easily visited. The surrounding convent buildings, including the Petersstock and the Torhaus, are in use by the Deutscher Orden and by residents and businesses, so they are not open to walk through. The baroque church was built from tuff blocks between 1687 and 1693; the tower base dates from around 1630 and its upper section from 1713.
The north wing was never rebuilt: the order dropped that plan in favour of restoring other parts of the complex. In 2014 it renovated four apartments for the brothers of the convent, and the new priory was consecrated in summer 2018.
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