Weihenstephan
Weihenstephan is a part of Freising north of Munich, Germany. It is located on the Weihenstephan Hill, named after the Weihenstephan Abbey, in the west of the city.
Weihenstephan is known for:
- the Benedictine Weihenstephan Abbey, founded 725, which established the oldest still-operating brewery in the world in 1040. The brewery is now a company called Bayerische Staatsbrauerei Weihenstephan and closely related to the Technical University of Munich and its graduate studies program for brewing and beverage manufacturing.
- the site of one of the four campuses of the Technical University of Munich, namely the School of Life Sciences
- the Hochschule Weihenstephan-Triesdorf
- the Molkerei Weihenstephan, a formerly state-operated dairy that also closely cooperated with the TUM and its agricultural studies programme, but which has now been sold to the Müller dairy group.
- the Sichtungsgarten Weihenstephan, a notable horticultural garden
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