A Jacobite Gazetteer - Bavaria - Andechs
Several members of the Royal Family were married in the abbey church: Princess Maria-Theresia (eldest daughter of Prince Rasso) and Count Thomas Kornis in 1977; Prince Luitpold (son of Prince Ludwig and Princess Irmingard) and Beatrix Wiegand in 1979; Antonia Brunetti (daughter of Princess Editha) and Erich Graf von Waldburg zu Zeil und Trauchburg in 1982; Princess Gisela (youngest daughter of Prince Rasso) and Alexander Prinz von Sachsen-Gessaphe in 1987; Princess Alice (younger daughter of Prince Luitpold) and Prince Lukas von Auersperg in 2009.
Sunday masses are celebrated in the abbey church at 9.00, 10.15, and 11.30 a.m., and at 6.00 p.m. Daily mass is at 7.15 a.m.
From the main entrance of the abbey church one can take the right path and walk down the hill to the Wittelsbacher Friedhof (Wittelsbach Cemetery). The cemetery was established by King Albert in 1980. 1 It lies in a walled compound which was formerly part of the monk's garden. The key to the cemetery can be requested at the Klosterpforte (abbey porter's lodge).
The remains of King Albert lie on the far side of the cemetery between those of his first wife Queen Marita and of his second wife Queen Marie Jenke. Each grave is marked by a rectangular stone border which encloses some plants. On the wall behind each of the graves grow rose bushes between which are German inscriptions: