Tettenweis Abbey

The history of Tettenweis Monastery began with a modest predecessor castle, which was replaced in 1797 by a new manorial castle built by Count Franz Xaver Peter von Joner. At the end of the 19th century, in 1896, Count Max von Löwenstein-Scharffeneck acquired the property. Just three years later, in 1899, he sold it to Frauenchiemsee Abbey, which then established a Benedictine daughter foundation there. From 1902, the complex was expanded in the Neo-Romanesque style. The monastery church was completed in 1949. In 1924, specifically on October 28, the Priory of St.