Benediktbeuern Abbey
13 June
The Benediktbeuern Abbey, which was founded around 739 AD by Saint Boniface, was a clerical and cultural centre of the Benedictine Order until its secularization in 1803. In 1930 the Salesians of Don Bosco revived monastic life. Over the centuries the monks transformed the the Loisach-Kochelsee wetlands into a unique landscape with pastures, extensively used meadows and natural upland moors. The focus of the nature preservation activities include, the improvement of the water balance, the renaturation of approx. 200 ha of upland moors, restoring wetlands by daming up ditches, targeted species and habitat preservartion, flood protection through the large buffering capcity of moors, ground water preservation throughthe filration effect.
Participants
Curators: Juan Carlos Betancourt (Latein
Artists: Kalle Laar (
Filmmaker: Frank Sauer (
Photography: Mila Pavan (
Technology: Bernd Wiemann
(Vodafone Group R&D)Science: Ludwig Braun (Commission for Glaciology of the
of Sciences and Humanities), Peter Rumm (Biologist, FutureCamp)
Media: Sven Ricklefs (Bayerischer Rundfunk), Rosa del Rey (Spain)
