Kloster St. Gabriel, Monastery of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in Solln, Munich, Germany.

Kloster St. Gabriel is a monastery of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in Solln, in Munich's far south, next to Gut Warnberg. Behind a dark green metal fence and six notice boards stand two low buildings with reddish-brown vertical wood siding among tall trees. The larger one has a shallow-pitched roof and a white sign reading "St. Gabriel"; beside it is a smaller flat-roofed wooden structure with a narrow vertical window and a blank tan plaque.

The Sisters of the Good Shepherd founded the house in 1840 with three nuns, making it their first foundation in Germany. King Ludwig I gave them a decayed site with the ruined Preysingschloss at the end of today's Preysingstraße in Haidhausen, where a neo-Gothic church was consecrated in 1843. On 30 October 1965 the community moved to the new St. Gabriel convent on Wolfratshauser Straße in Solln.

The monastery belongs to the Congregation of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, founded by Maria Euphrasia Pelletier, born in 1796 on the island of Noirmoutier. The sisters run a mother-and-child home with a large playground, a house for young mothers, a Volkshochschule branch and a convent hairdresser on the grounds. Munich's first baby hatch for anonymous surrender of infants was the one at St. Gabriel.

The monastery is well connected by public transportation, with U-Bahn stations and bus lines serving the area. Visitors should check ahead for open visiting hours and whether guided tours or public services are available.

St. Gabriel opened Munich's first baby hatch, where mothers can leave newborns anonymously. The grounds also hold a mother-and-child home with a large playground, a Volkshochschule branch, a convent hairdresser, and a house where sisters mainly support underage mothers. The site lies next to Gut Warnberg in Solln, at the southern edge of Munich.