Altötting Travel Guide
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Altötting Overview
Altötting lies about 90 kilometers east of Munich (Munich vacation rentals | Munich travel guide) and has nationwide importance its significance as a pilgrimage location.
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Things to See in Altötting
This small town is famous for the Gnadenkapelle (Chapel of the Miraculous Image), one of the most-visited shrines in Germany. This is a tiny octagonal chapel which keeps a venerated statue of the Virgin Mary. According to the legend, in 1489, a 3-year-old local boy who had drowned in the river was revived when his grieving mother placed him in front of a wooden statue of the Virgin Mary at the high altar. News of the miracle quickly spread, and the chapel was immediately extended by the erection of a nave and a covered walkway.
Other architectural highlights in the town are the twin-towered Stiftskirche, a late Gothic church erected in the early years of the 16th century in order to cater for the growing affluence of pilgrims, and the huge Neo-baroque Basilika, built at the beginning of the 20th century.
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Maps and Driving Directions to Altötting
Altötting can be reached using a variety of ways:
- Bundesautobahn 94: München–Passau, Anschlussstelle Nr. 22 (Altötting) oder A 8 München-Salzburg, Anschlussstelle Nr. 109 (Grabenstätt, via B 304 und B 299)
- Staatsstraße 2550 (ehem. B 12) : München-Passau
- Bundesstraße 299: Altenmarkt–Landshut
- Staatsstraße 2107: Altötting–Burgkirchen
- Staatsstraße 2607: Altötting–Wegscheid (Einmündung in St 2108)
- Staatsstraße 2108: Neuötting–Emmerting–Burghausen
- Kreisstraße 10: Altötting–Hirten–Halsbach
- Kreisstraße 12: Altötting–Tüßling–Polling-Mühldorf.
St. Anna interior
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More about the History of Altötting
During the Carlovingian period, there was a royal palace here. Nearby, King Carloman erected a Benedictine monastery in 876, with Werinolf as first abbot, and also built the abbey church in honour of the Apostle St. Philip. In 907 King Louis the Child gave the abbey in commendam to Burchard, the Bishop of Passau (Passau vacation rentals | Passau travel guide) (903-915), (probably identical with Burchard, second and last abbot). In 910 the Hungarians ransacked and burnt the church and abbey.
In 1228 Duke Louis I of Bavaria rebuilt these buildings and, once populated with religious, placed them in charge of twelve Augustinian Canons and a provost. The Augustinians remained until the secularization of the Bavarian monasteries in 1803.
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