Scheyern Abbey

The origins of Kloster Scheyern date back to 1077, when Countess Haziga and her first husband, Count Hermann von Kastl, founded a monastic cell in Bayrischzell, which was settled by monks from Hirsau. After a move to Fischbachau in 1087, which was confirmed by the Pope in 1095, another relocation occurred between 1102 and 1107 to Petersberg near Dachau. There, the monastery was elevated to an abbey and placed under papal protection, granting it the right to freely elect its abbot. In 1119, the monks finally moved to Scheyern after Count Otto V of Scheyern, the new Count of Wittelsbach, made his castle Scheyern available as a proprietary monastery and burial site.