Chiemsee

Chiemsee is a great freshwater lake in the Bavarian Alpine foreland, fed by the Tiroler Achen and Prien and drained northward by the Alz. Among its islands are Herrenchiemsee, once the site of an Augustinian monastery, and Frauenchiemsee, home to a Benedictine convent founded by Duke Tassilo III in 782. The convent's buildings were rebuilt between 1728 and 1732. Secularisation disrupted the community in 1803; King Ludwig I restored it to the Benedictine nuns in 1837.