Benediktinerkloster Plankstetten

The Benedictine monastery was founded in 1129 as episcopal monastery by Count Ernst II of Hirschberg and his brothers Count Hartwig III. founded by Grögling, Vogt of the Hochstift Eichstätt, and Gebhard von Hirschberg, Bishop of Eichstätt. From the founding time, there is still the Romanesque crypt. In the 15th century, there was a decay of morals in the monastery. Abbot Ulrich IV Dürner (1461-1494) carried out a reform and founded the brewery. In the Peasants 'War (1525) and the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648), large parts of the monastery were damaged or destroyed.