Mönchsdeggingen Abbey

Mönchsdeggingen Abbey is a monastery of the Mariannhill Missionaries in Mönchsdeggingen near Nördlingen on the southern edge of the Ries in Bavaria, in the Diocese of Augsburg.

The monastery, dedicated to St. Martin, was founded in the 10th/11th century by the Ottonian ruling house – ancestors of Emperor Henry II. Initially, it was a Benedictine nunnery until 1138, and in 1142 it was converted into a Benedictine monastery for monks. The monastery, which burned down in 1512/13, was rebuilt under Abbot Alexander Hummel, and the pilgrimage church was later redesigned in Baroque style.

The monastery was dissolved in 1802 during the secularization. The monastery's property went to the Princes of Oettingen-Wallerstein. The monks were allowed to stay until 1807. In 1950, the Congregation of the Missionaries of Mariannhill took over the monastery as a novitiate for aspiring priests. For a time, the order's Generalate was also housed here, which has been based in Rome since 1970.