Prüfening Abbey, Regensburg

Name: Prüfening Abbey
Address: Regensburg, Germany

#18 among attractions in Regensburg

Romanesque architecture, Monastery

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Prüfening Abbey was a Benedictine monastery on the outskirts of Regensburg in Bavaria, Germany. Since the beginning of the 19th century it has also been known as Prüfening Castle. Notably, its extant dedicatory inscription, commemorating the founding of the abbey in 1119, was created by printing and is a unique document of medieval typography. ()

Local name: Kloster Prüfening Coordinates: 49°0'32"N, 12°2'41"E

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Prüfening Abbey – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Public Observatory Regensburg, Saint Emmeram's Abbey, Scots Monastery, Herzogspark.

2.2 miE
Museum, Observatories and planetariums
Public Observatory Regensburg, Regensburg
55 min walk • The Public Observatory Regensburg is an astronomical observatory located in Regensburg, Germany. Its history dates back to the year 1774 when Saint Emmeram's Abbey dedicated two towers to astronomical observations. For the most time, it served for educational purposes.
2.2 miE
Church, Romanesque architecture
Saint Emmeram's Abbey, Regensburg
57 min walk • Saint Emmeram's Abbey, now known as Schloss Thurn und Taxis, Schloss St. Emmeram or St. Emmeram's Basilica, was a Benedictine monastery founded in about 739 at Regensburg in Bavaria at the grave of the itinerant Frankish bishop Saint Emmeram.
2.1 miE
Church, Romanesque architecture
Scots Monastery, Regensburg
54 min walk • The Scots Monastery is the former Benedictine Abbey of St James in Regensburg, Germany. It was founded in the 11th century by Irish missionaries and for most of its history was in the hands of first Irish, then Scottish monks.
1.9 miNE
Park
Herzogspark, Regensburg
50 min walk • Herzogspark is a 1.5 hectare municipal park, with small botanical garden, located on the banks of the Danube at the western edge of the old city, at Hundsumkehr Strasse, Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany.
2.3 miE
Romanesque architecture, Monastery
Obermünster, Regensburg
59 min walk • The Obermünster, or Obermünster Abbey, Regensburg, was a collegiate house of canonesses in Regensburg, Bavaria, second only to Niedermünster in wealth and power.
2.2 miE
Church, View point
Dreieinigkeitskirche, Regensburg
57 min walk • Dreieinigkeitskirche is an early Baroque pillarless hall church in the old town of Regensburg. The church was built from 1627 to 1631 according to plans by Hanns Carl, was one of the first new Evangelical Lutheran church buildings in Bavaria and...
2.3 miE
49°1'6"N • 12°5'37"E
document Neupfarrplatz, Regensburg
59 min walk • Museum
2.1 miE
Monastery
Prüll Charterhouse, Regensburg
53 min walk • Prüll Charterhouse, previously Prüll Abbey, is a former Carthusian monastery, or charterhouse, in Regensburg in Bavaria, Germany.
1.9 miNE
Museum
Württembergisches Palais, Regensburg
50 min walk • The Württembergisches Palais is an early 19th-century Neoclassical-style palace in the Western District of Regensburg in Bavaria's Upper Palatinate. The palace complex includes the Herzogspark, a municipal park with a Renaissance garden and a medieval tower known as the Prebrunnturm.
2.2 miNE
49°1'32"N • 12°5'7"E
Wöhrdbad, Regensburg
56 min walk • Amusement, Water park, Swimming
2.3 miNE
Church
St. Oswald, Regensburg
58 min walk • St. Oswald's Church is an Evangelical Lutheran church in the western Old Town of Regensburg on the south bank of the Danube, today belonging to the parish of Trinity Church. The construction of the collegiate church dates back to around 1290, when...