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Weihenstephan is a small city (48,500 inhabitants) near Freising north of Munich, Germany and belongs to Freising district.

Weihenstephan is known for:

• the site of one of the three campuses of the Munich University of Technology (TUM), namely the one for life sciences
• the Fachhochschule Weihenstephan
• the Sichtungsgarten Weihenstephan, a notable horticultural garden
• the Benedictine Weihenstephan Abbey, founded 725, which established the oldest still operating brewery in the world (1040) (see History of beer).^[1] The brewery is now a company called Bayerische Staatsbrauerei Weihenstephan (Bavarian State Brewery Weihenstephan, i.e. it is owned by the State of Bavaria) and closely related to the TUM and its graduate studies program for brewing and beverage manufacturing. Official website
• the Staatliche Molkerei Weihenstephan (the State-operated dairy Weihenstephan) which also closely cooperated with the TUM and its agricultural studies programme, but is now no longer owned by the state, having been sold to the Müller dairy group.

[edit] References

1. ^ Giebel, Wieland, ed (1992). The New Germany. Singapore: Höfer Press Pte. Ltd.

Coordinates: 48°23′42″N 11°43′40″E / 48.395°N 11.72778°E / 48.395; 11.72778

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