Zangberg Abbey

Zangberg Monastery is a monastery of the Sisters of the Visitation of Holy Mary, a Salesian order, in Zangberg in Upper Bavaria. The buildings date back to a castle from the year 1000. In 1285, this was expanded into a fortress and in 1687, after a fire, rebuilt as a four-winged castle around an inner courtyard by Ferdinand Maria Franz Freiherr von Neuhaus. In 1862, Carl Theodor Graf Geldern-Egmont sold the buildings to the Sisters of the Visitation of Holy Mary (an order of Salesian nuns). 26 sisters, 4 novices, and 1 candidate moved from Dietramszell to the new monastery. It remains in their possession as St. Josef Monastery to this day. Towards the end of World War II, a sub-commando of a concentration camp was housed in the monastery, where mostly Hungarian Jews were forced to build the nearby armaments facility "Weingut I". Since 2000, one wing of the building has been an educational center for BSH Bosch and Siemens Home Appliances.