Benediktbeuern (

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: ''Benediktbeiern'') is a municipality in the district of Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen in

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, 2 kilometers, or 1.25 miles from

Bichl Bichl is a municipality in the district of Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen in Bavaria, Germany. It is located at , and has about 2000 residents. The village first appears in documents from 1048. The name "Bichl" refers to hill upon which the village ch ...

. The village has 3,602 residents as of 31 December 2019. The medieval Latin name of Benediktbeuern was ''Buria'' (adjective: ''Burana'').Se
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/ref> Benediktbeuern has a famous monastery, formerly belonging to the Benedictine Order, called

Benediktbeuern Abbey Benediktbeuern Abbey (Kloster Benediktbeuern) is an institute of the Salesians of Don Bosco, originally a monastery of the Benedictine Order, in Benediktbeuern in Bavaria, near the Kochelsee, 64 km south-south-west of Munich. It is the oldes ...

, which was founded in about 739. Its name is well known because of the ''

Carmina Burana ''Carmina Burana'' (, Latin for "Songs from Benediktbeuern" 'Buria'' in Latin is a manuscript of 254 poems and dramatic texts mostly from the 11th or 12th century, although some are from the 13th century. The pieces are mostly bawdy, irreverent ...

'' ('Benediktbeuern songs') manuscript found there in 1803 and subsequently set to music by

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. Since 1930 the

Salesians of Don Bosco , image = File:Stemma big.png , image_size = 150px , caption = Coat of arms , abbreviation = SDB , formation = , founder = John Bosco , founding_location = Valdocco, Turi ...

have lived in this monastery.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic. His works include plays, poetry, literature, and aesthetic criticism, as well as t ...

visited Benediktbeuern during his third journey to

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in 1786. The secular village itself - its ribbon-development clearly distinct from the abbey's edifices - was called Laingruben until 30 November 1865, when it was permitted to take the name of the monastery. Benediktbeuern has kept the structure of a traditional village near the

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. The village can be used as a base for day trips to many places of interest, and it has become a tourist resort. Many residents of the village commute to

Penzberg Penzberg (; Central Bavarian: ''Benschberg'') is a city (although some see it as a town) in the Weilheim-Schongau district, in Bavaria, Germany. It is located about 50 km south of Munich, and had a population of around 17,000 in 2020. A histo ...

, Wolfratshausen/ Geretsried and

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. Important road connections are the A95 motorway from

to Garmisch-Partenkirchen and federal highway B472 from east to west. From Benediktbeuern station trains run from

Kochel Kochel am See is a municipality and a town in the district of Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen in Bavaria, on the shores of Kochelsee. The municipality consists of the districts Altjoch, Brunnenbach, Ort, Pessenbach, Pfisterberg, Walchensee and Ried. ...

in an hour, and the village has a bus connection to Bad Tölz.

References

External links

www.benediktbeuern.de Village Website

www.kloster-benediktbeuern.de Monastery Website
Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen {{BadTölzWolfratshausen-geo-stub