Michelfeld Abbey

Michelfeld Abbey (Kloster Michelfeld in der Oberpfalz) was a Benedictine monastery in Auerbach in der Oberpfalz in Bavaria, Germany.
==History==
The monastery, dedicated to Saint Michael and Saint John the Evangelist, was founded in 1119 by Bishop Otto I of Bamberg. It was dissolved in the Reformation, in 1556. Re-opened temporarily in 1661 and permanently in 1684, it was put under the administration of the Electors of Bavaria on 13 March 1802 and finally dissolved in 1803 in the secularisation of Bavaria.
==Buildings==
The abbey church became the parish church. Other buildings now accommodate a nursing home.
==External links==
* Klöster in Bayern: St. Michelfeld in der Oberpfalz
Category:Benedictine monasteries in Germany
Category:Monasteries in Bavaria
Category:1119 establishments
Category:Religious organizations established in the 1110s
Category:Christian monasteries established in the 12th century
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