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112: 33: 128: 284: 225: 135: 321:, was consecrated in 1719. The interior is built, not with right angles, but with a series of ellipses. The main altar, the chancel and the statues of saints in the church and on the façade are by Balthasar Esterbauer; the ceiling frescoes are by Melchior Steidl. The choir stalls were made by the court 547: 562: 542: 567: 493: 62: 336:
as a place of Catholic enlightenment and for the scholarship of its monks. This did not save it from secularisation and dissolution in 1803.
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and her husband, Count Hermann of Habsburg-Kastl, and until the secularisation of 1803 was the oldest monastery on the upper
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the abbey had to be rebuilt. The abbots Eucharius Weiner and Kilian Düring commissioned Johann
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In the late Middle Ages and until 1575 only members of the nobility were accepted as monks.
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The estate of the former monastery, including vast forests, is today owned by Duke
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Kloster Banz als ein benediktinisches Modell. Zur Stiftsstaatlichkeit in Franken.
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in: "Zeitschrift für bayerische Kirchengeschichte" 70 (2001), pp. 44–72.
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In the second half of the 18th century Banz Abbey was known throughout the
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acquired the former abbey premises, which were thereafter known as
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The abbey was founded in about 1070 by Countess Alberada of
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sold the buildings to the Community of the Holy Angels (
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Christian monasteries established in the 11th century
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Banz Abbey is located in Germany
Order
Benedictine
Baroque
Bad Staffelstein

German
German
Benedictine
Bad Staffelstein
Bamberg
Bavaria
Germany

Schweinfurt
Main
Thirty Years' War
Leonhard Dientzenhofer
Johann Dientzenhofer
Baroque style
cabinet maker

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