Benediktbeuern

Benediktbeuern is a municipality in the Upper Bavarian district of Bad Tolz Wolfratshausen inside the Alpine foothills on the foot of the 1801 meter high Benediktenwand. The municipality is a member of the equal administrative network. The monastery Buron to Benediktbeuern changed into maximum likely based in 725 to 728 via Karl Martell in the course of campaigns to Bavaria as a mundane base and as a watch and manipulate station in front of the Kesselberg at tactically favorable place. Karl Martell used the exceptionally aristocratic Alemanni Lantfrid, a member of the Huosi, as his reliable vassal. Around 739 to 740 St. Jacob and St. Benedict consecrated monastery was founded as a Benedictine abbey.

Archbishop Boniface delivered Lantfrid as Benedictine abbot and consecrated the primary monastery church. A few years later Charlemagne brought the relic from the right arm of St. Benedict. Then the previously known as Buron monastery become renamed Benedictoburanum. After crowning glory of the monastery, the first convent college became based. The founded in the 8^th century in Kochel. See convent changed into moved to 800 within the monastery Benediktbeuern, in which it had its seat at the north facet of the men's monastery until the 14th century.