Another hot and sunny day so we are heading out of town on a 40 minute train ride to Herrsching am Ammersee to hike up to the top of Heilig Berg (Holy Mountain) to view the Benedictine Abbey and sample the delights of its brewery. The Holy Mountain has been a place of pilgramage for Christians since 1138 and continues to this day due to Holy Relics housed in the Abbey. We left the train station and followed the signs to the forest and began our 5km (3mi) hike to the Benedictine Abbey of Andechs. Brewing is thought to have started here with the arrival of seven Benedictine monks who were sent to the newly built Andech Monestary in 1455. Today the brewery is a state of the art operation that distributes its beers throughout Europe and the US.
After the hike and a tour of the church we split a delicious lunch that included a litre of Andechs Weissbier (wheat beer) and Bavarian specialty grilled Schweinshaxe (pork knuckle) with potato salad before heading back down to catch our train for Munich
The view of the small village of Andechs, the lovely countryside and the Ausrian Alps from the courtyard of the Benedictine Monestary
There has been a church here since 1423. The onion domed towers were built in 1669 and the church was rebuilt in Baroque style in 1712
The interior of the church showing the Gothic Hall built in 1427 with its 1755 redesigned Roccoco interior nave, walls and dome
After the hike and a tour of the church we split a delicious lunch that included a litre of Andechs Weissbier (wheat beer) and Bavarian specialty grilled Schweinshaxe (pork knuckle) with potato salad before heading back down to catch our train for Munich
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