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Weihenstephan
Weihenstephan
is a part of
Freising
north
of
Munich, Germany
.
Weihenstephan is known for:
the
Benedictine
Weihenstephan Abbey
, founded
725
, which established the
oldest
still-operating
brewery
in
the world
in
1040
. The brewery is now a
company
called
Bayerische Staatsbrauerei Weihenstephan
and closely related to the
Technical University of Munich
and its
graduate studies
program
for
brewing
and
beverage
manufacturing.
the
Hochschule Weihenstephan-Triesdorf
the
Molkerei Weihenstephan
, a formerly state-operated
dairy
that also closely cooperated with the
TUM
and its
agricultural
studies
programme
, but which has now been
sold
to the
Müller
dairy group.
the
Sichtungsgarten Weihenstephan
, a notable
horticultural
garden
the site of one of the four campuses of the Technical
University of Munich
, namely the one
for life
sciences