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on the site of the original seat of the Counts of Bogen. Initially it was not a specifically Premonstratensian foundation, but was transferred to the order as an already established community between 1121 and 1146. The
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Die Chorherrenorden und ihre Stifte in Bayern. Augustinerchorherren, Prämonstratenser, Chorherren v. Hl. Geist, Antoniter. Mit einem Beitrag von Adalbert Mischlewski: Die Niederlassungen des Antoniterordens in
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of Bavaria in 1803. The church became a parish church and the abbot's house the residence of the parish clergy. The monastic buildings passed into private ownership, and from 1835 were used for a brewery.
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and in 1146 raised to the status of an abbey. After the extension of the abbey church it was dedicated on 28 November 1167 by the Premonstratensian abbot of Leitomischl (now
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secured the endowment of the monastery by granting it the properties of Schüttenhofen (now
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was made between 1735 and 1740, and contains a statue of the Virgin from about 1650. The
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In 1923 the monastic community was re-established here by Premonstratensians from
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of the church was dedicated on 21 and 22 May 1142 by Heinrich Zdik,
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Die Kunstdenkmäler von Niederbayern, vol. XX: Bezirksamt Bogen
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In around 1955, the then abbot, Fr. Norbert Backmund, visited
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Christian monasteries established in the 12th century
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12th-century establishments in the Holy Roman Empire
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Affiliation
Premonstratensian
Lower Bavaria
Year consecrated
Windberg
Geographic coordinates
48°56′23″N 12°44′49″E / 48.939722°N 12.746944°E / 48.939722; 12.746944
Style
‹See Tfd›
German
Premonstratensian
Windberg
Lower Bavaria
Germany

Bogen
Otto of Bamberg
choir
Bishop of Olmütz
Vladislav II of Bohemia
Sušice
Virgin Mary
Litomyšl
secularisation
Berne-Heeswijk Abbey
Netherlands
canons
Roggenburg Priory
Neu-Ulm

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