Ottobeuren Abbey
Reichsabtei Ottobeuren | |
The façade of the basilica, designed by Johann Michael Fischer, has been hailed as a pinnacle of Bavarian Baroque architecture | |
Interactive map of Ottobeuren Abbey | |
| Monastery information | |
|---|---|
| Order | Benedictine |
| Established | 764 |
| People | |
| Important associated figures | Ulrich of Augsburg |
| Site | |
| Location | Ottobeuren, Germany |
Ottobeuren is a Benedictine abbey, located in Ottobeuren, near Memmingen in the Bavarian Allgäu, Germany.
For part of its history Ottobeuren Abbey was one of the approximately 40 self-ruling imperial abbeys of the Holy Roman Empire and, as such, was a virtually independent state. At the time of its dissolution in 1802, the imperial abbey covered 266 square kilometers and had about 10,000 subjects.