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Extract from the Ettal Travel Guides:
The small health resort of
ETTAL
, 4km down the road from Oberammergau, grew up around its Benedictine
Kloster
, which was founded in 1330 by Emperor Ludwig IV, and for several centuries wielded temporal (though not spiritual) jurisdiction over Oberammergau. A twelve-cornered design, based on the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, was adopted for the original Gothic
Klosterkirche
, and this shape, along with much of the masonry, was preserved in the Baroque rebuilding carried out by Enrico Zuccalli and Joseph Schmuzer. Johann Straub carved the pulpit and assemblage of nave altars, while the fr...
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