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  Andechs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Benedictine abbey of Andechs is a former place of pilgrimage on a hill east of the Ammersee in the Landkreis of Starnberg (Oberbayern) in Germany.
Otto II of Andechs was bishop of Bamberg, 1177 – 1196.
Composer Carl Orff is buried in the cloister.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Andechs   (544 words)

  
 Hedwig of Andechs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Saint Hedwig of Andechs (1174 - October 1243; Polish: Święta Jadwiga Śląska) was born at Castle Andechs, Bavaria, the daughter of Berthold III, Count of Tirol and Duke of Carinthia and Istria (Andechs-Meran), and his wife Agnes.
She died in October 1243 and was buried at Trzebnica, while relics of her are preserved at Andechs Abbey.
Hedwig is the patron saint of Brandenburg, Berlin, Silesia and its capital Wrocław, of Trzebnica, the Diocese of Goerlitz, of Andechs and of Kraków.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hedwig_of_Andechs   (346 words)

  
 NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Hedwig of Andechs
Jadwiga Śląska) was born in Castle Andechs, Bavaria, the daughter of Berthold III, count of Tirol and prince of Carinthia and Istria (Andechs-Meran), and his wife Agnes.
She died in October 1243 and was buried at Trzebnica, while her relics are kept at Kloster Andechs.
Saint Hedwig is the patron saint of Berlin, Silesia and the capital Wrocław, of Trzebnica, Diocese of Goerlitz, of Andechs and of Kraków.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Hedwig-of-Andechs   (1185 words)

  
 Andechs Monastery - Brewery
Proof exists that beer was being brewed at Andechs Monastery in the Middle Ages following the founding of the Benedictine Monastery on Andechs Mountain by the Wittelsbach Duke Albrecht III.
This was recognized in December 2000 with the accreditation of Andechs Monastery Brewery as being in accord with the European Union Ecological Audit Certification.
Not only are Andechs Monastery Beers appreciated in all traditional branches of gastronomy but are also steadily gaining in popularity in the new trend-setting, beer-orientated food-and-drink scene.
www.andechs.de /englisch/brauerei   (317 words)

  
 Andechs Monastery - Church & Monastery
Andechs Monastery - with its brewery, Bräustüberl, monastery restaurant, and not least its rich cultural offerings in the representational environs of the “Fürstentrakt” and the Florian Stadl multi-purpose hall - is a much sought after meeting place attracting visitors from around the world.
As a successful economic entity, Andechs Monastery fulfils its mission as a foundation and as a business resource provides all necessary financial means for the support and maintenance of St. Bonifaz Abbey in Munich through its own efforts - all without relying on subsidy from public church tax funds.
From this standpoint, Andechs Monastery’s concept and activity at this time creates the basis for the future: To prevail  and — historical awareness notwithstanding - without being entrapped in the past or tradition.
www.andechs.de /englisch/kloster   (267 words)

  
 Andechs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Its fame as a place of pilgrimage dates back to 955, when the relics which St. Rasso, one of the counts of Diessen, had brought from Rome and the Orient to his monastery at Wörth (later called Grafath) were transferred hither to save them from the ravages of the Huns.
The collegiate church which Duke Ernest had erected in 1438 was changed into a Benedictine monastery by Duke Albert III in 1455, and colonized with monks from Tegernsee.
SATTLER, Chronik von Andechs (Donauworth, 1877); HEINDL, Der heilige Berg Andechs (Munich, 1895).
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/a/andechs.html   (274 words)

  
 Hedwig of Andechs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Saint Hedwig of Andechs (1174 - October 1243) was born in Castle Andechs, Bavaria, the daughter of Berthold III, count of Tirol and prince of Carinthia and Istria (Andechs-Meran), and his wife Agnes.
She died in October 1243 and was buried at Trebnitz, while her relic s are kept at Kloster Andechs.
Saint Hedwig is the patron saint of Berlin, Silesia and the capital Breslau, of Trebnitz, Diocese of Goerlitz, of Andechs and of Krakow.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Hedwig_of_Andechs.html   (866 words)

  
 Distinguished Brands International Brings Andechs Spezial Hell Lager To US - Beer Advocate
The Benedictine monks of Andechs are devoted to the exacting, old world brewing recipes that have been used to craft their acclaimed beer for more than five centuries.
Andechs Spezial Hell is being brewed under direct supervision of the Benedictines and in strict accordance with their purity law called, Reinheitsgebot, at Brick Brewing Company in Waterloo, Ontario.
Andechs is the latest import addition to Distinguished Brands International, based in Littleton, Colo., wide range of internationally renowned specialty beers.
beeradvocate.com /news/stories_read/f-697562   (495 words)

  
 Nachrichten auf Andechs -- de.4NEWZ.com
Oktober, spricht Pater Coelestin Stöcker über den Heiltumsschatz von Andechs und seine geschichtliche Bedeutung.
Biergarten-Idylle und benediktinischer Geist prägen das Kloster Andechs, zu dem jährlich bis zu 1,5 Millionen Besucher pilgern.
Andechs - Bolerotänzerin, Femme fatale und Geliebte des Bayerischen Königs Ludwig I.
de.4newz.com /deutschland/Andechs.html   (806 words)

  
 Hotel (Garni) zur Post - Andechs
Andechs Monastery sits atop a high hill, with a pay-to-park lot at the bottom of the hill.
This is the famous "Andechs hill," which all drinkers must climb to reach the both the church and the famous Andechs Biergartens...
Andechs Bier is famous wouldwide and also seems more intoxicating than others for some reason.
www.bensbauernhof.com /bhickoxhotelzurpostandechs.html   (509 words)

  
 Hedwig of Andechs: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The polish language is the most widely-spoken of the slavic language subgroup of lekhitic languages which include kashubian (and its extinct dialect/language slovincian)...
The word relic comes from the latin reliquiae (remains) and there are many pre-christian instances of some bone or other part of the corpse, or some intimately...
Canonization is the process of making someone into a saint and involves proving that a candidate has lived in such a way that he or she is worthy of sainthood....
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/he/hedwig_of_andechs.htm   (1362 words)

  
 Finding the Sweet Spot in Cheese - Archives - Dairy Foods   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Andech’s laboratory manager, A. Höck, approached the challenge by first discussing the possibility of developing an improved method of cheese analysis, using a titrator and a sample changer.
In this method, Andech’s cheese is weighed into the titration beaker and placed on the Rondo 60-sample changer turntable.
Andechs has put a DL58 titrator and a Rondo 60-sample changer system, equipped with a homogenizer and printer, into routine operation.
www.dairyfoods.com /CDA/Archives/df4f47062e0a7010VgnVCM100000f932a8c0____   (621 words)

  
 Brick Brewing Company - Benedictine Monks
It is a site of religious pilgrimage, but also one visited by international beer connoisseurs eager to taste and enjoy Andechs beer which is the result of the brewing arts and skill practiced by the Benedictines.
After long deliberation, Kloster Andechs judged the Brick Brewing Company to have the brewing skills needed to be entrusted with its historic secret recipes.
Brick is the only brewery to brew and distribute Andechs beer outside of Germany.
www.brickbeer.com /html/news005.html   (153 words)

  
 Mr.Lodge presents the Munichtoday Cityguide - Kloster Andechs
For over 500 years, the monks of Andechs have brewed their own beer, since 1455 to be exact.
This traditional place of pilgrimage is situated on the "holy mountain", which lies on the eastern shores of the Ammersee and is visited by tourists from all over the world.
Whether "junior" is capable of walking the rest of the way and climbing the 222 steps to the beer-garden is questionable.
www.mrlodge.de /munichtour/sightseeing/andechs/fr.htm   (255 words)

  
 KlosterAndechs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The "Sacred Mountain" of Andechs was home to a religious order some 900 years ago and by 1274 the brothers were already brewing up a few libations that were thought to have miraculous powers.
Word spread that a woman actually regained her sight after quaffing a few mugs of the potent Andechs beer (there's a reversal of fortunes for sure) and business at the monastic brewery took off.
Today there may be a healthy separation of Church and State, but not of cloister and brewery.
www.beerdrinkersguide.com /BDGWebsite/Gardens/KlosterAndechs.htm   (125 words)

  
 d.a.f.t - Pöschl: Kloster Andechs Spezial Snuff   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Entsprechend der Herstellerbeschreibung wurde der "Kloster Andechs Snuff" mit Kraeutern aromatisiert.
Der Kloster Andechs ist - denke ich - nicht zu Unrecht einer der meistgenannten Schnupftabake in daft.
Der Andechs ist ein sehr fein gemalener, rotbrauner Snuff.
www.daft.de /tabak/review.php?sel=74&ref=tabak   (1119 words)

  
 Die Pleite von Andechs Das rechte Maß verloren - München - sueddeutsche.de
Da braut sich was zusammen: Dunkle Wolken über Kloster Andechs.
In diesen Tagen bekommt in Andechs das Bild von einem Kloster Risse, von dem es immer hieß, es werde von modernen Managern ins 21.
Die Kloster Andechs Gastronomie AG, die bundesweit zehn Wirtshäuser unter dem Logo „Der Andechser“ betreibt, hat „mehr Geld ausgegeben als eingenommen“, heißt es in einer Mitteilung des Klosters.
www.sueddeutsche.de /muenchen/artikel/262/36226   (454 words)

  
 Origins of the Name
Tyrol genearaly includes the source of the Isar River (Upper Isar), and also the city of Innsbruck (at the source of the River Inn), the sources of both rivers lie on the north side of the same mountains in Western Austria.
The name returns to notariaty in Bavaria as the Count of Andechs in around 1100, until the last of the line was Bertold VII, Patriarch of Aquileia who died in 1251.
Eight children were born to Bertold IV, Count of Andechs and Duke of Croatia and Dalmatia.
www.bartold.com /genealogy/origins.html   (5888 words)

  
 Beer Brewing Monks Battle Over Monastery's Future | Business | Deutsche Welle | 02.07.2004
Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: The future of the Andechs monastery, and its famous beer, is in dispute.
Among beer aficionados for whom the consumption of beer is a near religious-like experience, the Andechs monastery, located in the mountains of Bavaria a half an hour's drive from Munich, is an important pilgrimage sight.
Abbot Johannes Eckert, the recently-elected head of the St. Bonifaz monastery in Munich which the Andechs is subordinate to, has a conservative opinion on the matter, while the prior of Andechs, Anselm Bilgri, the business-savvy monk largely credited with the monastery's success, has another.
www.dw-world.de /dw/article/0,,1252773,00.html   (715 words)

  
 JACKCURTIN.COM/LIQUID DIET ONLINE
The pints of Andechs Doppelbock we had in Munich the day before had convinced me and others who'd not enjoy one previously that he was onto something.
The monastery is located "on the Holy Mountain above the eastern shore of Lake Ammersee in the middle of Upper Bavaria’s Five-Lakes Region," says the official Andechs website, which meant it was somewhere in the hills above the train station where we disembarked.
According to O'Reilly, there is a way to hike up to Andechs but since we couldn't even figure out where the place actually was, nor see anything resembling a hiking trail, that wasn't much help.
www.jackcurtin.com /liquiddiet/europe2.htm   (1122 words)

  
 ANDECHS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Andechs ist ein Wallfahrtsort im Landkreis Starnberg (Oberbayern) in Deutschland.
Die Festspiele Orff in Andechs, bei denen in den Sommermonaten im Florian-Stadl des Kloster Andechs alljährlich Werke von Carl Orff aufgeführt werden, sind weltweit die bedeutendste Spielstätte, die sich der Pflege der Orffschen Werke verpflichtet hat.
Carl Orff liegt auf seinen Wunsch hin in der Kloster- und Wallfahrtskirche des Kloster Andechs begraben.
www.toonorama.com /encyclopedia/A/Andechs   (96 words)

  
 Doppeljubiläum in Andechs: Der "Heilige Berg" feiert | Land & Leute | BR
Doppeljubiläum in Andechs: Der "Heilige Berg" feiert
Andechs ist für viele das Urbild eines bayerischen Klosters.
Für Andechs kommen die Geburtstage zur rechten Zeit: In den vergangenen zwei Jahren hatte das Kloster allzu weltliche Schlagzeilen gemacht.
www.br-online.de /land-und-leute/artikel/0510/01-andechs/index.xml   (626 words)

  
 Post-Crescent - Andechs Brewery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Barry that he was thinking of the Andechs Brewery at the foot of the “Holy Mountain,” atop which sits the fortress monastery of a group of commercially astute Benedictine monks.
At 7 percent, Andechers Doppelbock Dunkel is not an especially strong for the style – 7.5 percent is the recognized standard for a dopplebock.
“Unfortunately, our Andechs Spezial Hell Lager is only available in the province of Ontario, and we do not have any immediate plans to export to the United States in the near future,” said Heather Leech of Brick Brewing.
www.wisinfo.com /postcrescent/news/beerman/beer_9575254.shtml   (546 words)

  
 MICE-venues.com | Kloster Andechs, Andechs
Kloster Andechs, von weither sichtbar auf dem Heiligen Berg über dem Ostufer des Ammersees inmitten des Fünf-Seen-Landes, ist seit über einem halben Jahrtausend nicht nur ein beliebtes Wallfahrtsziel, sondern ist auch zu einem kompetenten Tagungszentrum gewachsen.
Andechs ist ein aktives Kloster, in dem zurzeit acht Mönche leben, beten und arbeiten.
Um den Charakter des bescheidenen klösterlichen Lebens deutlich zu bewahren und auch hier den Gästen die Möglichkeit zur Besinnung und Ruhe zu bieten, sind die Räume in ihrer Ausstattung schlicht gehalten.
www.mice-venues.com /locationsuche.php?location=135279   (290 words)

  
 Kloster Andechs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
This turn of the century spa town is nestled against the Eastern edge of Lake Ammer (Ammersee) in Bavaria's 5 lakes district and provides a gateway to the world famous Andechs Klosterbrauerei!
Andechs motto is "Genuß für Leib & Seele" translated to English is..."Benefit for body and soul." A day trip to this beautiful monastery and church is a must while in Munich.
The restaurant there serves up some of the finest Bavarian food specialties and the Dopplebock bier there is considered one of, if not the best, Dopplebocks in the world.
home1.gte.net /vze2r294/HTML/andechs   (163 words)

  
 Dr. Kai Grosch - Research Experience
Max-Planck Research Centre for Ornithology, Andechs Radolfzell (1993): Supervised a field crew of volunteers capturing birds and instructed them in ringing and measuring birds.
Max-Planck Research Centre for Ornithology, Andechs Radolfzell (1993): Designed and conducted a field study of the relationship of diet and habitat use of insectivorous birds in the stop over site 'Halbinsel Mettnau'.
Max-Planck Research Centre for Ornithology, Andechs Radolfzell (1996 - 2000): Designed and conducted several lab-experiments concerning the behaviour and the ecological requirements of F1-hybrids between common and fl redstarts.
www.uni-konstanz.de /FuF/wiwi/heiler/GroschResearch.html   (157 words)

  
 Munich Brewery Tours
As for brewery tours, I know Andechs does one in the summer, but I don't know the times or dates.
Aha, all listed on their website: Andechs Tours.Aha, you need at least 10 people before they do one in English, but anytime of year if you arrange it.
Ayinger is one of the easiest and does tours in English.
www.toytowngermany.com /lofi/index.php/t5131.html   (708 words)

  
 Munich  - Sightseeing  - Brewery tours  Germany  - Andechs Monastery & Brewery ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The history of the House of Andechs goes back to the 10th century, when the family’s founder brought back sacred reliquaries from the Holy Land to Andechs Castle above the eastern shore of Ammersee.
Members of the religious Andechs family took part in the Third Crusade in 1180.
After the last of the Andechs family died, the Wittelsbach royal family took possession of the castle and reliquaries and later constructed the church.
www.inyourpocket.com /germany/munich/en/venue?id=GEMNENX0143   (356 words)

  
 Machtkampf in Andechs: Prior Bilgri nimmt seinen Hut | Bayern heute | BR
Angesichts der Festspiele "Orff in Andechs" darf Schott als Organisator zwar den Florianstadl betreten - die anderen Räumlichkeiten sind für ihn jedoch tabu.
Es gibt größere, ältere und theologisch bedeutsamere Orden in Bayern - ein schöner gelegenes Kloster als das 1455 gegründete Andechs auf dem "Heiligen Berg" lässt sich aber kaum finden.
Waren es im Mittelalter Reliquienschätze wie die "drei Heiligen Hostien", die Andechs zum Anziehungspunkt unzähliger Pilger machten, ist es heute die gewachsene Infrastruktur, die jährlich 1,5 Millionen Besucher anzieht: Klosterbier und Brotzeiten, überlieferte Theaterspektakel wie der "Goggolori" und natürlich Konzerte: der Komponist Carl Orff hat seine letzte Ruhestätte in der "Schmerzhaften Kapelle" des Klosters gefunden.
www.br-online.de /bayern-heute/artikel/0406/29-andechs/index.xml   (612 words)

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