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5 unusual facts about Seeon Abbey


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Seeon Abbey the Seeon Abbey (Kloster Seeon), a monastery in the municipality of Seeon-Seebruck

Seeon Abbey

Between 1657 and 1670 the church was extended by the construction of a sacristy in the Lady Chapel, an oratory and a crypt beneath the chapel of Saint Barbara.

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Seeon Abbey (Kloster Seeon) was a Benedictine monastery in the municipality of Seeon-Seebruck in the rural district of Traunstein in Bavaria, Germany.

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The Romanesque towers are reminiscent of Freising Cathedral and, like the Frauenkirche at Munich, have copper "onion towers", which were added after a fire in 1561.

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More alterations in the late Gothic style were carried out between 1428 and 1433 by Konrad Pürkhel of Burghausen.



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