Beyharting Abbey

The Beyharting Monastery is a former monastery of the Augustinian Canons in the Beyharting district of the municipality of Tuntenhausen in Bavaria, in the Archdiocese of Freising.

The monastery, consecrated to St. John the Baptist, was founded around 1130 by Judith, the widow of the nobleman Tageno von Pihartingen. Around 1420, the church and cloister were Gothicized. Between 1668 and 1670, the church was re-equipped and rebuilt. Around 1730, the church was stuccoed and frescoed by Johann Baptist Zimmermann. The monastery was dissolved in 1803 during the secularization. The monastery complex passed into private ownership, and the monastery church later became a parish church. Since 1997, the monastery buildings have also belonged to the Catholic Parish Church Foundation. During interior renovation work, the remains of the monastery founder were discovered at Easter 2002 and solemnly reburied in the parish church on February 9, 2003. The 12-year renovation work concluded with the solemn blessing of a new folk altar by Archbishop Friedrich Cardinal Wetter on November 20, 2005.