St. Martin (Fischbachau)
Church in Fischbachau, Germany, dating from 1001
Fischbachau Priory (Kloster Fischbachau) was a Benedictine monastery located in Fischbachau, Bavaria, Germany. The monastery was founded in 1087 as a priory of Hirsau Abbey against the background of the Investiture Controversy and the Hirsau Reforms, by the monks who had previously formed the small monastery founded in 1077 at Bayrischzell by Haziga of Diessen, wife of Count Otto I of Scheyern, ancestors of the Wittelsbachs. The original site at Bayrischzell was soon abandoned for unsuitability and lack of water. Nor did the monastery remain long at Fischbachau; the community moved on, for muc
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- Type:
- Church
- Period:
- 1001
- Where:
- Fischbachau, Germany
- Coordinates:
- 47.72°N, 11.95°E
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