Beautiful Bavaria-Ettal, Schloss Linderhof, Oberammergau, Garmisch-Partenkirchen HD

Beautiful Bavaria-a two day visit to Ammergau Alps, from Munich to Ettal, Schloss/Palace Linderhof, Oberammergau and Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Ettal is a small town in the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Ettal is best known for its Benedictine Abbey/monastery, founded on 28 April 1330 by Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian. The construction of the church was completed in 1370- In 1744, the abbey and the abbey church were largely destroyed in a fire. It was completely redesigned and spectacularly rebuilt in the Baroque style by Enrico Zuccalli, a Swiss-Italian architect working in Munich, who had studied with Bernini. The decoration was primarily carried out by Josef Schmutzer of the Wessobrunn School of stuccoists and Johann Baptist Straub, who was responsible for the altars and the chancel. The monastery runs a brewery, a distillery, a bookstore, an art publishing house, a hotel, a cheese factory joint venture, and several smaller companies. The distillery produces Ettaler Kloster Liqueur, a herbal liqueur whic