Abbaye de Sandau, lieu de culte
The Abbey of Sandau is a monastery on the right bank of the Lech river near Landsberg am Lech, with ruins dating to the 8th century. The remains display a stone church featuring Romanesque architecture and repeatedly renovated structures from different periods.
The monastery was founded around 740 by three brothers from the Huosi family: Waldram, Eliland, and Landfrid. By the end of the 9th or early 10th century it was destroyed, then again later, but the stone church was rebuilt each time.
The monastery bore the name Sandau and served as a center for prayer and communal life among the monks. The remaining structures still show the layout of a medieval Benedictine community with stone walls and simple rooms where daily life unfolded.
The site is easily accessible on foot and offers a quiet walk to view the ruins from various angles. The surrounding fields and trees provide a good sense of the monastery's location within the natural landscape.
The monastery held the right to operate a market, showing it was economically rooted in the region. When the abbey was destroyed, these market rights passed to the nearby town of Landsberg.
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