A Jacobite Gazetteer - Bavaria

Andechs - Klosterkirche and Friedhof

The town of Andechs is located about 30 kilometres southwest of Munich. It surrounds a Benedictine abbey (Kloster) which is one of the most popular pilgrimage destinations in Bavaria.

On the north (left) side of the abbey church, immediately across from the main entrance is the Schmerzhafte Kapelle (Chapel of Sorrows). Here are buried the remains of Prince Heinrich (younger son of King Rupert and Queen Antonia. On the left wall of the chapel is a marble tablet with the coat-of-arms of Bavaria on the left, and a German inscription on the right:

HEINRICH
KOENIGLICHER PRINZ
VON BAYERN
GEBOREN AM 28·3·1922
IN HOHENBVRG·LENGGRIES
GESTORBEN AM 14·2·1958
IN BARILOCHE·ARGENTINIEN

Henry,
Royal Prince
of Bavaria,
born March 28, 1922,
at Hohenburg, Lenggries,
died February 14, 1958,
at Bariloche, Argentina

Kloster Andechs

Tomb of Prince Henry

Several members of the Royal Family were married in the abbey church: Princess Maria-Theresia (eldest daughter of Prince Rasso) and Count Thomas Kornis in 1977; Prince Luitpold (son of Prince Ludwig and Princess Irmingard) and Beatrix Wiegand in 1979; Antonia Brunetti (daughter of Princess Editha) and Erich Graf von Waldburg zu Zeil und Trauchburg in 1982; Princess Gisela (youngest daughter of Prince Rasso) and Alexander Prinz von Sachsen-Gessaphe in 1987; Princess Alice (younger daughter of Prince Luitpold) and Prince Lukas von Auersperg in 2009.

Sunday masses are celebrated in the abbey church at 9.00, 10.15, and 11.30 a.m., and at 6.00 p.m. Daily mass is at 7.15 a.m.

From the main entrance of the abbey church one can take the right path and walk down the hill to the Wittelsbacher Friedhof (Wittelsbach Cemetery). The cemetery was established by King Albert in 1980. ¹ It lies in a walled compound which was formerly part of the monk's garden. The key to the cemetery can be requested at the Klosterpforte (abbey porter's lodge).

The remains of King Albert lie on the far side of the cemetery between those of his first wife Queen Marita and of his second wife Queen Marie Jenke. Each grave is marked by a rectangular stone border which encloses some plants. On the wall behind each of the graves grow rose bushes between which are German inscriptions:

HERZOGIN MARIE VON BAYERN GEB. GRÄFIN DRASKOVICH * 8.3.1904 + 10.6.1969 R.I.P.	Duchess Marie of Bavaria born Countess Draskovich born March 8, 1904; died June 10, 1969 R.I.P.
ALBRECHT HERZOG VON BAYERN * 3.5.1905 + 8.7.1996 R.I.P.	Albert, Duke of Bavaria born May 3, 1905; died July 8, 1996 R.I.P.
HERZOG JENKE VON BAYERN GEB. GRÄFIN KEGLEVICH * 23.4.1921 + 5.10.1983 R.I.P.	Duchess Jenke of Bavaria born Countess Keglevich born April 23, 1921; died October 5, 1983 R.I.P.

Wittelsbacher Friedhof

Tombs of King Albert, Queen Marita, and Queen Marie Jenke

The remains of Prince Ludwig (elder son of Prince Franz and brother-in-law of King Albert) lie on the left side of the cemetery.

Notes

¹ Andechs, der Heilige Berg: Von der Frühzeit bis zur Gegenwart (München: Prestel, 1993), 102.

Image 1 (Kloster Andechs): Andechs, tafel 39.