Seligenporten Abbey Church – Mahlweiher Seligenporten loop from Seligenporten

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14.0km

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Moderate run. Good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: October 14, 2026

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Seligenporten Abbey Church

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Monastery Church of the Assumption of Mary

The monastery church was originally dedicated to the Visitation of Mary and is now dedicated to the Assumption of Mary. The nave is stylistically dated to the late 13th century. The chancel likely dates from the first half of the 14th century. The elongated, plastered hall church with a slightly recessed chancel, measuring 54 meters in length, features stepped buttresses at the chancel. A gabled tower with a pointed spire on the west side is open at the bottom.

The church is a single-nave structure with a large nuns' gallery and, below it, the burial vault (so-called crypt) for the founding families of Sulzbürg and Wolfstein. The design is simple, with high, bare walls and no paintings or sculptures to minimize distractions from prayer. By the mid-14th century, the church's clear tripartite division was complete: the nuns' church in the west, the lay church in the center, and the priests' church in the east. The nuns' primary duties consisted of choral prayer and work. It can therefore be assumed that the church and the monastic living quarters were the first buildings completed. Until the Reformation, almost all deceased members of the founding family were buried here, and the nuns prayed daily for their souls. Several gravestones from this period still exist. The nuns' choir stalls on the gallery have been preserved and are therefore unique in all of Europe.

The Baroque altars that adorn the church were acquired around 1720 after all the paintings and altars were burned during the Reformation. The high altar was crafted by a carpenter named Ulrich Schäfer from Neumarkt; the sculptor of the figures is unknown. The altarpiece, "The Visitation of Mary," is by the Landshut painter Wolf Simon Groß.

In the right side altarpiece, dating from the late 17th century, the Three Wise Men pay homage to the Christ Child, above which is a statue of the Archangel Michael with a flaming sword and scales. In the left side altar stands a statue of the Virgin Mary with the Christ Child at the center, flanked by the apostles Peter and Paul. Above, a guardian angel holds his hand over a child.

On the north wall of the nave is a dynamic, life-size group of figures dating from 1762, depicting the crucifix with John Nepomuk, accompanied by a putto and an angel.

Source: Excerpts from wikipedia.de / pfarrei-seligenporten.de

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