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Extract from the Tegernsee Travel Guides:
The little town of
TEGERNSEE
is on the east bank of the lake, at the end of a branch railway from Schaftlach on the main line to Munich. By the waterside towards the southern end of the resort is the former Benedictine
Kloster
, which was founded in 746 and flourished for over a millennium. A major centre for manuscript illumination and calligraphy, it once had a library considered superior to that of the Vatican. Following the Napoleonic secularization, Leo von Klenze converted the monastic buildings into a summertime
Schloss
for the Bavarian kings. He also added a twin-towered facade to the Baroqu...
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