Scheyern Abbey

The original site proved unsuitable for a number of reasons, including difficulties with water supply, and the monastery moved in 1087 to Fischbachau.

[1] It suffered particularly severely in the Thirty Years' War and did not participate afterwards in the Baroque revival to the same extent as other monasteries in Bavaria.

On 15 November 1802 the monastery came under the governance of the territorial rulers, and on 21 March 1803 was dissolved as part of the secularisation of Bavaria.

Scheyern now also possesses a Byzantine Institute, specialising in the works of Saint John of Damascus.

In 1939 all schools run by religious orders were closed, including Scheyern Abbey's.