Altenhohenau Abbey

Altenhohenau Monastery was founded in 1235 by Count Konrad of Wasserburg and his wife Kunigunde as a Dominican convent. Historical evidence suggests that a St. Peter's church already existed at this location, in "venerable Hohenau," before the monastery's establishment, supported by the Wasserburg town charter from 1137. The location at a ford of the salt road across the Inn underscores the site's early importance. During the secularization, the monastery was dissolved in 1803 but served as a refuge for Dominican nuns from the region until 1822. After being sold to private individuals and many buildings demolished, the brothers Josef and Hubert Soyer acquired the complex in 1881. Katharina Soyer, Josef's widow, sold the church back to the Dominicans in 1922, who re-established the monastery in 1926.