Banz

Banz, once one of the richest and most famous of the Benedictine monasteries, on the right bank of the Maine, 3 miles below Lichtenfels. Founded in 1071, and destroyed in the Peasants' War in 1525, it was rebuilt, and although plundered again in the Thirty Years' War, it gradually became famed for the scientific attainments of its monks. In 1803 it was broken up, and its library and collections divided between the Munich museum and other institutions.