The best running trails around Rott am Inn

Simply beautiful here in Rott am Inn

Monastery garden with display boards over a historical review of the monastery

The Lourdes Grottoes are Mary's Grottoes, which are replicas of the Grotto of Massabielle near Lourdes in southern France and Our Lady of Lourdes. According to her own statements, Saint Bernadette saw the Mother of God in this grotto in 1858. At the site of the apparitions of Mary, a Madonna figure adorns the grotto, the original of which Joseph-Hugues Fabisch created for Massabielle in 1864 according to Bernadette's instructions. Source and more info https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lourdesgrotte

Beautiful view of the Alpine panorama. However, you should choose a day with good visibility.

Beautiful view of the Alpine panorama. However, you should choose a day with good visibility.

In 1858 the Mother of God appeared several times to the shepherd girl Bernadette in the Massabielle cave near Lourdes. I quickly spread the word about this and as early as 1875 a German pilgrimage train traveled to Lourdes. In Bavaria, Capuchins build the first Lourdes grottoes. It is the long-cherished wish of the doctor who has been practicing in Rott since 1865, Dr. Ludwig Seemüller to build a Lourdes grotto here. At the place of "Stifterbrünndl bei Rockerl" would be the right place at the source. dr Seemüller discusses this with the landowner Stefan Forstner, miller farmer in Dobl, and they happily agree. Numerous helpers are involved in the construction; the then Mother of God figure donates a "possible citizen woman". At the beginning of this century, however, the Lourdes grotto, which the population has grown fond of, is demolished due to moisture damage. The faithful are deeply disappointed with this now lost place of worship. This moves the landowner Stefan Forstner and he will have a new grotto built near the farm. The stonemason and sculptor company Hueber from Wallerstein in northern Swabia receives the order. Forstner also donated the statue of Mary and the figure of the seer Bernadette for this new grotto. The father-in-waiting from Rott makes the prayer chair and bench. We do not know whether Pastor Singldinger or Pastor Johann Baptist Schamberger, who had been active in Rott since March 1904, carried out the consecration. Again, the believers from Rott and the surrounding villages come to the newly built Marienstätte in Rockerl. Flowers or garlands adorn the grotto; also votive tablets donated out of gratitude. Admittedly, in that unfortunate period after 1933 for us, they were smashed, even trampled on. The builder of the Lourdes Grotto does not have to witness this; Dobl's father, the miller, died on March 10, 1931 at an advanced age. Mayor Valentiner dedicates a plaque to him. (Valentiner was a stonemason in Rott at the time) The care of this place of prayer and its surroundings is a constant concern of the Bodmaier family. In 1957 they were able to acquire the figure of Bernadette from the parish church in Plattling and now set it up in the Dobler Grotto. Pastor Sebastian Gruber and First Prior Georg Zacherl consecrated the church in 1958. A few years later, Pastor Johann Durner introduced the parish's annual May prayer service here in Dobl.

Radler from Lehen to Rott wonderfully lined with wild flowers of all kinds, a treat for flower lovers and bees.

The unique harmony of space, furnishings and program that characterizes the Rotter monastery church is the result of a literally “unique” collaborative work of the most important artists of southern German rococo. It owes its existence primarily to the patron, Abbot Benedict II Lutz (1720–1777). Born in Kitzbühel in 1720, Benedikt Lutz entered Rott Abbey in 1737, presumably due to the geographic proximity to the incorporated Priory Pillersee. Novitiate and theological studies led him to Weihenstephan near Freising, where the respected Father Roman Weixer (1690-1764) became his fatherly friend. Source and more info https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kloster_Rott