Steingaden

St. John´s chapel on the edge of the little graveyard is a round building, built around 1200. Probably another (small) copy of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Actually it was moved to this place within the 15th century - and got a new roof, but there is still a small tympanon - and left and right from the entrance are two lions. As this klind of lions got out of fashion - most of the lion vanished in the wall of the later built house on the right.

Welf VI (1115 - 1191), founder of the abbey, Duke of Spoleto, margraf of Tuscany and (thanks to Bernard of Clairvaux preaching at Speyer) combattant in the Second Cruisade, and his son Welf VII (1140 -1167), who fought in Italy against the pope with Friedrich I (aka "Barbarossa") and died from malaria in Siena, have their graves here.