During the construction work to renovate the southern arcade wing at Benediktbeuern monastery, historic walls came to light.
An archaeologist is on site and documents the finds.
Benediktbeuern
- As reported by Father Claudius Amann at the request of the Tölzer Kurier, the remains were discovered at the end of April.
As required, the State Office for Monument Preservation was involved.
Archaeologist Ines Gerhardt from the excavation company "Phoinix" from Pöcking is on site to document the walls, to clean them freely, to photograph, to draw and then to describe.
The walls are between 60 centimeters and one meter deep, starting from the current floor level.
The current quarter of the monastery was built in the Baroque period between 1650 and 1750, reports Father Amann.
Before that, there were several separate buildings on the site, including guest houses with small chambers.
Presumably the remains have now been discovered.
After initial assessments, the archaeologist assumes that the remains of the wall date from different centuries.
“You can judge that on the basis of the bricks.” The more bricks, the younger are the walls that are made of broken stones, field stones or brook pebbles elsewhere.
Gerhardt estimates that the younger walls could be from the 15th and 16th centuries.
Century, the older ones possibly from the 13th century.
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A wooden gully in the Mühlbach (in the green circle) was also discovered, which led water to the monastery mill, which was located behind today's southern arcade wing.
© Pröhl
So far, a coin, a button made of metal, a large number of forged nails, wooden posts from a well or a latrine and many ceramic shards have also been found.
Gerhardt has already identified the location of an old tiled stove that stood at the passage of the central risalit.
During the renovation of the monastery, discoveries were definitely expected, says Father Amann.
They are now being kept in coordination with the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments.
The area itself, through which there is also a water pipe, is to be closed again.
However, asphalting can no longer be assumed this year, says architect Knut Prill.
The foundation wall is currently being exposed on the north side of the southern arcade tract.
Over the centuries it has been so saturated that the statics of the building are in danger.
Sealing and installing drainage is time-consuming.
How long the renovation work in the monastery will be delayed and made more expensive due to the archaeological finds cannot yet be estimated.
“The problem, however, is that we have committed funds that cannot be increased,” says Prill.
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