Berg im Donaugau Abbey () was a

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located somewhere in the area of Berg im Gau in

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, Germany.

History

Berg im Donaugau Abbey was founded by Wolchanhard, son of the nobleman Isanhart (who gave him, possibly as a child

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, to St Peter's Abbey, Salzburg,Hammer, Carl I., ''A Large-Scale Slave Society of the Early Middle Ages: Slaves and their Families in Early Medieval Bavaria'', Routledge, 2017, no pagination
around 768, as a private monastery for his family. He was also the first abbot. It was dedicated to the Holy Saviour (''Sankt Salvator''). He attended the synod of Dingolfing in 770. After the fall of Duke

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and the end of the Agilolfinger dynasty in 788, Wolchanhardt put the monastery under the protection of

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. This made it subject to the crown rather than the diocesan bishop. In 815

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confirmed this immunity to Abbot Sigihard.Klöster in Bayern: Ein verschwundenes Kloster – Berg im Donaugau
/ref> A deed of 18 May 875 records the gift of the monastery by King

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to the ''Alte Kapelle'' (''"Old Chapel"'') in

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, which he himself had built. After the invasion of the

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in the 10th century there is no further record of its existence, and even its exact site is now unknown.

References

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