{"id":15592,"date":"2026-08-17T20:17:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T20:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/?p=15592"},"modified":"2026-08-17T20:17:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T20:17:42","slug":"kloster-weltenburg-kelheim-bayern-deutschland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/de\/germany\/bavaria\/weltenburg-abbey-kelheim-bavaria-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Kloster Weltenburg, Kelheim, Bayern, Deutschland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Weltenburg Abbey (Kloster Weltenburg) enjoys one of the most spectacular settings of any monastery in Germany, standing on a low peninsula where the Danube squeezes through a narrow, cliff-lined gorge near Kelheim in Lower Bavaria. A Benedictine community was founded here around the year 620 by wandering Irish or Scottish monks, making Weltenburg the oldest monastery in Bavaria. Though dissolved during the secularisation of 1803 and re-established in 1842, the abbey remains a working religious house \u2014 and one famous for three things: its breathtaking Baroque church, its idyllic riverside location at the heart of the Danube Gorge, and a monastery brewery that claims to be the oldest of its kind in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Was es zu sehen gibt<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The jewel is the abbey church of St George, built between 1716 and 1739 by the celebrated Asam brothers, Cosmas Damian and Egid Quirin, and counted among the masterpieces of Bavarian Baroque. Its oval interior is a theatrical explosion of gilding, marble, frescoes and swirling stucco, culminating in the high altar where a silvered figure of St George on horseback, spearing the dragon, is dramatically lit from a hidden window behind \u2014 a piece of sacred stagecraft that still astonishes. Beyond the church, the peaceful monastery courtyard opens onto a much-loved beer garden on the riverbank, where the abbey’s dark \u201cBarock Dunkel\u201d beer, brewed here since the Middle Ages, is served beneath the trees. From the abbey you can also walk up to the little Frauenberg chapel on the hill above for a fine view over the river bend, or set off along the footpaths through the surrounding nature reserve of the Danube Gorge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anreise und praktische Informationen<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Weltenburg liegt an der Donau, wenige Kilometer stromaufw\u00e4rts von Kelheim, etwa auf halbem Weg zwischen Regensburg und Ingolstadt. Die klassischste und eindrucksvollste Art, dorthin zu gelangen, ist mit dem Boot: Ausflugsschiffe fahren von Kelheim aus durch die spektakul\u00e4re Donaudurchbruchschlucht, vorbei an hoch aufragenden Kalksteinfelsen, bevor sie direkt neben der Abtei anlegen. Man kann die Abtei auch zu Fu\u00df entlang des Flusses oder \u00fcber die H\u00fcgel erreichen, und es gibt einen Parkplatz in kurzer Laufentfernung, obwohl das unmittelbare Flussufer weitgehend verkehrsfrei ist. Der Besuch der Kirche, des Innenhofs und des Biergartens ist kostenlos, w\u00e4hrend die Bootsfahrt durch die Schlucht kostenpflichtig ist und haupts\u00e4chlich von Fr\u00fchling bis Herbst angeboten wird. Es lohnt sich, den Besuch so zu planen, dass man im Innenhof zu Mittag essen oder ein Bier trinken kann und Zeit f\u00fcr die kurze, malerische Schluchtfahrt einplant, die den halben Reiz eines Besuchs ausmacht.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bavaria’s oldest monastery, a Benedictine abbey on a dramatic bend of the Danube with a dazzling Baroque church by the Asam brothers and what claims to be the world’s oldest monastic brewery.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1018,977,985,962],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bavaria","category-architecture","category-churches","category-germany"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15818,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15592\/revisions\/15818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}