Schloss Herrenchiemsee, Bavaria, Germany -- Here's a distorted panorama of the inner courtyard. These buildings are much newer from the baroque 17th and 18th centuries (but with rather austere exteriors). For its first 4 centuries, the monastery was Benedictine, changing to Augustinian in 1130. It was secularized in 1803 and eventually sold to a lumber company that intended to deforest the whole island.Note the building at far right which has...

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