Weltenburg Abbey

Kloster Weltenburg (Weltenburg Abbey) is the oldest abbey in Bavaria, founded about 620 by iro-scottish monks St. Eustasius and St. Agilus. The abbey is situated on the banks of the Danube, just west of the "Danube Gorge" (aka "Weltenburg Narrows" - "Donaudurchbruch"). Saint Rupert may have consecrated a church here, dedicated to St. George around 700.

In 1050 Benedictian monks founded a brewery here, that is still existing (though the abbey got secularised in 1803). The brewery claims to be the oldest monastery brewery in the world today. The title is disputed by the nearby Weihenstephan brewery, founded in 1040. But document about the Weihenstphan monastery brewery is probably a falsification from the 17th century.

This is the courtyard of the monastery, used as a beergarden. During the rainy weather there are not many visitors here. Up on the wall you can see, how nicely the abbey is placed on the Danube. The building behind is - under scaffolding!

Here are the websites of the two oldest breweries of the planet:

Weltenburg
www.weltenburger.de/

Weihenstephan
weihenstephaner.de/language.php