Polling Abbey, Polling, Germany

According to legend, the founder of Polling Abbey was Duke Tassilo III of Bavaria in about 750, but it seems more likely that the founders were members of the powerful Bavarian noble family of the Huosi.

Initially this was a Benedictine monastery, but later became a house of Augustinian canons. The abbey was dissolved during the secularization of 1803 and the buildings were mostly demolished between 1805 and 1807.

The important late Gothic abbey church with early Baroque stucco work by the Wessobrunn stuccoist Georg Schmuzer is now the parish church.

Part of what few buildings remained came into the possession of the Dominican sisters in 1892. The dispensary and the service block passed into private ownership.

The unique library of Polling Abbey was restored in 1970-1975 and may be visited by arrangement. A hospice is also accommodated in the remaining premises on the former abbey site.

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N. Bahar (2 years ago)
Former "children's sanatorium". A lot of suffering was done to deported children behind these monastery walls up until the 1980s. The Catholic Church...

Luke Skywalker (3 years ago)
Beautiful old monastery. Seems a bit run down and run down. However worth seeing. The small town has a very picturesque effect due to the small river. The really very old inn with a great beer garden under tall old trees is also very nice. The former brewery has been temporarily closed for many years. Every second Saturday of the month there is a small, very fine farmer's market in the monastery courtyard, where products from the immediate vicinity are offered. In the middle of the stands there are beer tent sets to eat the delicious dishes from farmer's bread, cakes, grilled sausage to fish on a stick.

Juan Antonio Estrada Herrera (4 years ago)
This place its really beautiful (with nice weather), it's has a really nice church with delightful decorations. It's just a shame that you are currently not available to enter to the main chamber and just watch from behind a steal door. The place has a parking lot that it's big enough for about some 20 to 30 cars but It doesn't seem to be a problem since it's not that packed even in weekends. I do recommend to at least make a quick stop to see it, the place its quite nice.

Wolfgang Halmich (4 years ago)
The "Heilig Kreuz" monastery in Polling was once a children's rest home in which the children were systematically subjected to physical and psychological violence. Perhaps you shouldn't forget that when you visit the monastery.

Biene (4 years ago)
The palliative care unit is the best thing I have in such a lifetime was allowed to experience. thank you for your help

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