Klösterl Walchensee, Youth guesthouse of the Diocese of Augsburg in Kochel, Bavaria, Germany
Klösterl Walchensee is a two-storey former Hieronymite monastery on the Zwergern peninsula on the west shore of Lake Walchensee, about 330 metres from Walchensee village. It has a slate-covered gable roof with a wooden roof turret topped by an onion dome, and its baroque St. Anna Chapel contains a high altar by Cosmas Damian Asam dated 1728. Since 1988 the Diocese of Augsburg has used the building as a youth education house.
Wolfgang Holzer founded a Hieronymite monastery here in 1688 with backing from Bavarian Electress Maria Antonia of Austria. The community remained for roughly 4 decades before circumstances led the monks to relocate.
The St. Anna Chapel displays a baroque high altar crafted by Cosmas Damian Asam in 1728, reflecting regional artistic traditions of the era. The work shows how local craftsmen approached religious art during this period.
The Klösterl stands on the Zwergern peninsula on the west shore of Lake Walchensee, about 330 metres across the water from Walchensee village. The chapel of St. Anna can be visited on Sundays during the summer; at other times the complex is used by the Diocese of Augsburg as a youth education house.
The Hieronymite monks left here in 1725 due to disputes with neighboring Benediktbeuern Monastery over hunting and fishing rights. This conflict prompted the community to establish themselves anew in Munich.
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