{{Short description|Benedictine monastery in Bavaria, Germany}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}} {{Expand German|topic=struct|Fischbachau|date=February 2012}} '''Fischbachau Priory''' (''Kloster Fischbachau'') was a Benedictine monastery located in Fischbachau, Bavaria, Germany.

The monastery was founded in 1087 as a priory of Hirsau Abbey against the background of the Investiture Controversy and the Hirsau Reforms, by the monks who had previously formed the small monastery founded in 1077 at Bayrischzell by Haziga of Diessen, wife of Count Otto I of Scheyern, ancestors of the Wittelsbachs. The original site at Bayrischzell was soon abandoned for unsuitability and lack of water. Nor did the monastery remain long at Fischbachau; the community moved on, for much the same reasons as before, to yet another site at the little village of Petersberg, and from there a final time to Scheyern, where they remained and which became Scheyern Abbey.<ref>Karl Bosl (ed.): ''Handbuch der historischen Stätten Deutschlands. Band 7: Bayern'' (= ''Kröners Taschenausgabe. Band 277''). 3rd edn. Kröner, Stuttgart 1981, {{ISBN|3520277034}}, p.&nbsp;198</ref>

A small priory or cell remained however at Fischbachau, which was from then on a priory or cell of Scheyern, centred on the church of Saint Martin. This was refurbished in about 1700 in the Rococo style, of which it remains a spectacular example.<ref>Georg Dehio: ''Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. Bayern IV: München und Oberbayern''. München 1990, pp.&nbsp;288ff.</ref><ref>Klaus Kratzsch: ''Landkreis Miesbach'' (= Bayerisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege [ed.]: ''Denkmäler in Bayern. Band I.15''), 2nd edn. München/Zürich 1987</ref>

The monastic community was dissolved during secularisation in 1803, and only the church, the Martinskirche, is left.<ref>[https://www.fischbachau.de/a-klosterkirche-st-martin-martinsmuenster Fischbachau.de: Klosterkirche St. Martin "Martinsmünster"]</ref>

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==External links== * Photos of the interior of St Martin and St Mariae Schutz in Fischbachau, in the [http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/vpc/VPC_search/subcats.php?cat_1=2&cat_2=39&cat_3=4303 ''Warburg Institute Iconographic Database''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150927224108/http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/vpc/VPC_search/subcats.php?cat_1=2&cat_2=39&cat_3=4303 |date=27 September 2015 }} * [https://www.merkur.de/lokales/miesbach/miesbach/stiftungsgeld-fresken-restaurierung-2402705.html Merkur.de: Miesbach: Stiftungsgeld für Fresken-Restaurierung, 16 July 2012]

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Category:Monasteries in Bavaria Category:Benedictine monasteries in Germany Category:1087 establishments in England Category:Christian monasteries established in the 1080s

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