First Foundation
It was founded in 1095 as a monastery of the Augustinian Canons and changed to a Benedictine abbey in 1106.
In the 13th century, the abbey owned seven villages and it had an income from a further 71 places in the area. Ten parish churches were incorporated. During wars and conflicts the monastery was destroyed several times for example during the Thirty Years' War and during Napoleonic Wars of the beginning of the 19th century
The present abbey church was built between 1747 and 1792 to plans by Balthasar Neumann. The abbey appeared on the reverse of the 50 Deutsche Mark banknote current between 1998 and 2002, (the obverse showed Balthasar Neumann). The abbey was dissolved during the secularisation of 1803 and transferred to Thurn und Taxis until 1806 due to the Napoleonic invasion.
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