Former Premonstratensian monastery: founded in 1147 by Duke Welf VI; monastery life ended with secularization in 1803, Copyright Gemeinde Steingaden/Werner Böglmüller
Monastery church St. Johannes Baptist (1176), called Welfenmünster: one of the most important Romanesque church buildings in Upper Bavaria; 3-aisled pillar basilica with 2 towers; church interior baroqueized (1660-70); Wessobrunn stucco and ceiling paintings; rococo pulpit and cross group; preserved west wing of the former Romanesque cloister (13th century Gothic vault), monastery garden. Copyright municipality of Steingaden/Werner Böglmüller
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