{"id":1169,"date":"2026-06-07T21:14:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T19:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/item\/kloster-ettal\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T11:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T09:04:10","slug":"kloster-ettal","status":"publish","type":"citadela-item","link":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/item\/kloster-ettal\/","title":{"rendered":"Ettal Abbey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size:1.15em;line-height:1.6;color:#3a352f;\">Ettal Abbey is a Benedictine monastery founded in the 14th century, whose magnificent baroque basilica with its mighty dome is visible from afar in the Ammer valley. To this day the monks produce the well-known Ettal monastery liqueur and beer. The abbey lies near Oberammergau and Linderhof Palace.<\/p>\n<h2>Highlights<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Baroque basilica with a mighty dome<\/li>\n<li>Benedictine abbey since the 14th century<\/li>\n<li>Ettal monastery liqueur and beer<\/li>\n<li>Close to Oberammergau and Linderhof<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Good to know<\/h2>\n<table class=\"at-vergleich\" style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:14px;\">\n<tr style=\"background:#ffffff;\">\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;width:34%;font-weight:600;\">Founded<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;\">14th century<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#fafaf8;\">\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;width:34%;font-weight:600;\">Style<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;\">Baroque (basilica with dome)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#ffffff;\">\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;width:34%;font-weight:600;\">Products<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;\">Monastery liqueur, beer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#fafaf8;\">\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;width:34%;font-weight:600;\">Location<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;\">Ammer valley, Bavaria<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<h2>Practical info<\/h2>\n<div style=\"background:#f3f1ec;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;border-radius:10px;padding:18px 20px;\">\n<p style=\"margin:6px 0;line-height:1.55;\"><strong style=\"color:#f25353;\">Getting there:<\/strong> By car via Oberau\/Oberammergau; bus from Garmisch\/Oberammergau.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:6px 0;line-height:1.55;\"><strong style=\"color:#f25353;\">Best time:<\/strong> Year-round.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:6px 0;line-height:1.55;\"><strong style=\"color:#f25353;\">Cost:<\/strong> Basilica free; tours\/sales partly payable (please verify).<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:6px 0;line-height:1.55;\"><strong style=\"color:#f25353;\">Safety:<\/strong> Uncomplicated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:12px 0 4px;\"><strong style=\"color:#f25353;\">Tips:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top:0;\">\n<li>Combine with Linderhof Palace and Oberammergau into one day<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Background &amp; History<\/h2>\n<p>Ettal Abbey was founded in 1330 by Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian, and the legend revolves around a marble image of the Madonna that the emperor is said to have brought back from a journey to Italy and that is still venerated to this day as a miraculous image above the high altar. The original complex was a Gothic central-plan building, a twelve-sided rotunda whose unusual form still resonates in the later baroque building and recalls the plans of earlier master builders that awaited completion.<\/p>\n<p>In the 18th century the abbey was transformed into a total work of art of the Bavarian Rococo: a dome visible from afar crowns the building, the interior shines in bright stucco and colourful frescoes that Johann Jakob Zeiller executed around the middle of the century, while the artful stucco decoration is regarded as one of the great achievements of its time. Embedded in a quiet alpine valley between Oberammergau and Garmisch, the Benedictine monastery lives on to this day with a school and grammar school, and beyond its spiritual significance it is famous for its own brewery and the liqueur distillery, in which the monks have cultivated the monastic tradition of self-sufficiency for centuries and produce the well-known monastery liqueur according to a secret recipe. To this day Ettal has remained a much-visited pilgrimage site and a living centre of spiritual life in the Werdenfelser Land.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#221c1a;color:#fff;border-radius:10px;padding:18px 22px;margin-top:28px;\"><strong style=\"font-size:1.08em;\">Related<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:6px 0 12px;color:#d8d2cc;font-size:14px;\">To make your trip run smoothly , our guides and gear tips for this destination:<\/p>\n<div style=\"display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;gap:10px;\"><a href=\"\/en\/wanderschuhe\/\" style=\"display:inline-block;background:#f25353;color:#fff;padding:9px 16px;border-radius:6px;text-decoration:none;font-weight:600;font-size:14px;\">Hiking boots \u2192<\/a><a href=\"\/en\/ausruestung\/\" style=\"display:inline-block;background:#f25353;color:#fff;padding:9px 16px;border-radius:6px;text-decoration:none;font-weight:600;font-size:14px;\">Gear &amp; reviews \u2192<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Das Kloster Ettal ist eine im 14. Jahrhundert gegr\u00fcndete Benediktinerabtei, deren pr\u00e4chtige barocke Basilika mit ihrer m\u00e4chtigen Kuppel weithin sichtbar im Ammertal liegt. Die M\u00f6nche stellen bis heute den bekannten Ettaler Klosterlik\u00f6r und Bier her. Das Kloster liegt nahe Oberammergau und Schloss Linderhof. Highlights Barocke Basilika mit m\u00e4chtiger Kuppel Benediktinerabtei seit dem 14. Jahrhundert Ettaler [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1206,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","citadela-item-category":[39,38],"citadela-item-location":[61],"class_list":["post-1169","citadela-item","type-citadela-item","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","citadela-item-category-ausflugsziele-sehenswuerdigkeiten","citadela-item-category-einkehr-genuss","citadela-item-location-garmisch-werdenfelser-land"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-item\/1169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-item"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/citadela-item"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-item\/1169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1519,"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-item\/1169\/revisions\/1519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"citadela-item-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-item-category?post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"citadela-item-location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-item-location?post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}