Reisach Priory
Reisach Priory, formerly Urfahrn Priory, was until 2019 a friary of the Discalced Carmelites in Oberaudorf in Bavaria, Germany, in the diocese of Munich and Freising.
History
Urfahrn Priory
The priory, dedicated to Saint Teresa, was founded as Urfahrn Priory in 1731 for the Discalced Carmelites by Johann Georg von Messerer, a counsellor at the Bavarian court, and his wife, both of whom were members of the Carmelite Third Order. The monastery was built between 1737 and 1741 by Abraham Millauer and his son Philipp to plans by the master builder Johann Baptist Gunetzrhainer. The interior of the church is by the Munich court painter Balthasar Albrecht.Urfahrn Priory was dissolved in 1802, during the secularisation of Bavaria.
Reisach Priory
In 1836–37, after failed attempts to establish a Franciscan community in the empty buildings, it was re-founded as Reisach Priory by a small group of Carmelites from Würzburg.The monastery was closed in November 2019 and remained empty as at October 2021.
In 2021 most parts of the episode "Wunder gibt es immer wieder" of the detective series Tatort were produced at the empty priory.