Benediktbeuern
Benediktbeuern is a community in the county Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen in Bavaria, Germany. The distance between Bichl and Benediktbeuern is only 2 kilometer (equal to 1.25 US Miles). The village has about 3500 (year 2004) residents.
Benediktbeuern has a famous monastry called "Kloster Benediktbeuern" (Benedictine abbey), which is well known because of the Carmina Burana and was founded in the year 739. Goethe was during his 3rd journey to Italy in Benedkiktbeuern in the year 1786.
Benediktbeuern has kept the structure of a village in front of the Alpes. To many points of interest you can go from there in one day trips. Therefore it is a tourist resort. Many people commute for work to Penzberg, Wolfratshausen/Geretsried and Munich.
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