The Provostry of St. Michael () is a monastery in Paring, a part of

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in the district of

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, Germany.

History

The monastery, dedicated to

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, was founded in 1141 by Gebhard von Roning, as a monastery of

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, which it remained until 1598. It was re-founded in 1616 by monks from

Andechs Abbey Andechs Abbey is a Benedictine monastery, now a priory but formerly an abbey, in the municipality of Andechs, in the Starnberg (district), ''Landkreis'' of Starnberg, Upper Bavaria, Germany. A place of pilgrimage on a hill east of the Ammersee, t ...

as a

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community, which was dissolved during the

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of monasteries in Bavaria in 1803. The monastery was bought in 1974 by the Canons Regular of the newly refounded

Congregation of Windesheim The Congregation of Windesheim () is a congregation of Augustinian canons that regularly takes its name from its most important monastery, which was located at Windesheim in the Netherlands. The congregation was founded as an offshoot of the Br ...

, and is the

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of this revived congregation.

Buildings

The buildings had been bought by a farmer during the 19th century, and were partially destroyed.

External links

Klöster in Bayern: Paring
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