Höglwörth Abbey

Högwörth Abbey is a former monastery of the Augustinian Canons in Högswörth near Anger in Bavaria, in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising.

The Augustinian monastery, dedicated to St. Peter and Paul, was founded in 1125 by Archbishop Konrad I of Salzburg. Högswörth was the only monastery in Bavaria to be spared from secularization, as it only fell to Bavaria in 1816, along with the Salzburgian "Rupertiwinkel". The monastery itself enforced its dissolution in 1817. However, its last provost, Gilbert Grab, had already applied for the dissolution of the monastery in 1813, which was contradicted in an unheeded rescript by the Bavarian king in 1816. After that, Högswörth still belonged to the jurisdiction of the Freising Ordinariate at the beginning of 1817. Finally, on July 30, 1817, the last and only Bavarian monastery spared from secularization was dissolved. This was also the last secularization carried out by the Bavarian state. The monastery came into private ownership.

The monastery with its Rococo church on a peninsula in the lake represents one of the most beautiful ensembles in eastern Upper Bavaria.