The best road cycling routes around Mengkofen

imposing pilgrimage church :-) definitely check it out!!

Very nice beer garden in the inn next door :-)

Best pit stop in the area - the Radler is hard-earned after the climb ;-)

Tunzenberg Castle has had a new owner for over a year, who is investing heavily in the restoration and restoration of the entire property, including the castle park, etc. The beer garden and restaurant are worth a visit. The old brewery is also being gradually renovated.

beautiful bike path next to the main road

In summer there is a great little beer garden under chestnut trees. An eBike charging station (4x Schuko) is also located outside in summer.

Mallersdorf Monastery The monastery dedicated to St. John the Evangelist was founded in 1107 by Heinrich von Kirchberg, a ministerial of the Imperial Abbey of Niedermünster in Regensburg. In 1109, Bishop Hartwig consecrated the St. John Chapel, which had already been consecrated by Bishop Wolfgang, as Mallersdorf's first monastery church. In 1136, Abbot Eppo dissolved the double monastery (as a community of men and women) that had probably existed in Mallersdorf up to that point, and the women's convent moved to neighboring Eitting. Romanesque church buildings in the 12th century, a religious heyday in the 13th century, and the Kastler Reformation in the 15th century shaped the later Middle Ages. The abbey was on the verge of dissolution in the middle of the 16th century. The monastery's position was consolidated when the monks from the Ebersberg Benedictine Abbey, which had been abolished by Pope Clement VIII in 1595, moved there. Under Abbot Anton Schelshorn (1665–1695), the central training center of the Bavarian Benedictine Congregation was established in Mallersdorf. In the 18th century, the monastery experienced another cultural, scientific and religious heyday. This was expressed in the redesign of the monastery church, which culminated in the construction of the artistically outstanding high altar by the Munich sculptor Ignaz Günther. The Latin school run by monks in the monastery on the Johannisberg enjoyed an excellent reputation. In 1803, the monastery was dissolved as part of the secularization in Bavaria. The goods were auctioned off, and from 1807 onwards the monastery buildings were used as offices for the district authorities and as official residences. Since 1869, sisters from the order of the Poor Franciscan Sisters of the Holy Family have lived in the monastery. Today they run a monastery brewery there, which brews around 60 hectoliters of beer per week. The monastery also runs the "Specialist Academy for Social Pedagogy of the Poor Franciscan Sisters of Mallersdorf". There is also the Nardini Secondary School, named after the founder of the community. In August 2014, it was reported that Sister Doris Engelhard, a nun at the abbey and certified master brewer, is the last beer-brewing nun in Europe. She has been brewing beer in the abbey for over 40 years. Brewing in the abbey was revived in 1881. On brewing days, she is exempt from morning prayers and begins work in the abbey's brewery at 3:30 a.m. Source: www.wikipedia.de

The patronage of this church and the parish belonging to it has not been given to one of the (almost infinite) many saints, but rather placed under the protection of the "Holy Trinity". The following words come from Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger) about the mystery of faith that in Christianity we worship the ONE God in THREE persons: "On the Sunday after Pentecost we celebrate the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity. Through the Holy Spirit, who helps us understand the words of Jesus and leads us to the whole truth, believers can gain knowledge of the innermost nature of God and discover that He is by no means infinite loneliness, but rather a community of light and love, life given and received in an eternal dialogue between the Father and the Son in the Holy Spirit - loving, beloved and love, to use the words of St. Augustine." (Speech by Pope Benedict XVI, at the Angelus on June 11, 2006)