Schäftlarn is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

in the district of

Munich Munich is the capital and most populous city of Bavaria, Germany. As of 30 November 2024, its population was 1,604,384, making it the third-largest city in Germany after Berlin and Hamburg. Munich is the largest city in Germany that is no ...

Bavaria Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a States of Germany, state in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the list of German states by area, largest German state by land area, comprising approximately 1/5 of the total l ...

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. It consists of the villages Ebenhausen, Hohenschäftlarn, Kloster Schäftlarn, Neufahrn and Zell. The river

Isar The Isar () is a river in Austria and in Bavaria, Germany. Its source is in the Karwendel mountain range of the Alps. The Isar river enters Germany near Mittenwald and flows through Krün, Wallgau, Bad Tölz, Munich, and Landshut before reaching ...

runs through it. A human settlement with the name "Schäftlarn" does not exist. The most famous building complex is

Schäftlarn Abbey Schäftlarn Abbey (Kloster Schäftlarn) is a Order of St. Benedict, Benedictine monastery on the Isar in Schäftlarn, south of Munich in Bavaria, Germany. History The monastery was founded in 762 by Waldrich, Bishop of Passau, Waltrich, a pries ...

(Kloster).

History

The name Schäftlarn was officially recorded as a municipality in 1873. However, the roots of the place go back much further. Schäftlarn Abbey was founded in the year 762 as a monastery for

Benedictine The Benedictines, officially the Order of Saint Benedict (, abbreviated as O.S.B. or OSB), are a mainly contemplative monastic order of the Catholic Church for men and for women who follow the Rule of Saint Benedict. Initiated in 529, th ...

monks. The village of Hohenschäftlarn is first mentioned in documents 778 and belonged to the abbey. The monastery was rebuilt between 1702 and 1760, and the church of St. Georg in the village of Hohenschäftlarn in 1729/30. During the secularisation of Bavaria in 1803, the monastery was dissolved. In 1818, the municipality of Schäftlarn was first established as an independent political entity. In 1866,

Ludwig I of Bavaria Ludwig I or Louis I (; 25 August 1786 – 29 February 1868) was King of Bavaria from 1825 until the German revolutions of 1848–49, 1848 revolutions in the German states. When he was crown prince, he was involved in the Napoleonic Wars. As ki ...

re-established the monastery and gave it back to the Benedictines, who founded a school there. The village of Zell is first mentioned in documents in the year 1160, but it is probably much older. The first documents about Ebenhausen date back to the year 1130, when it was called Emmenhusen. Neufahrn is first mentioned in 1140.

Transport

The municipality has a railway station, , on the

Isar Valley Railway The Isar River Valley Railway () is a standard gauge and electrified railway in the German state of Bavaria. Originally it was 51.1 km long, running from München Süd station, Munich South station to and was built from 1891 to 1898 in sect ...

References

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