Weihenstephan

Weihenstephan is a small city near Freising (48,500 inhabitants) north of Munich, Upper Bavaria 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
* for the Fachhochschule Weihenstephan
* for the Benedictine Weihenstephan Abbey, founded 725, which established the oldest brewery of the world (1040) still in operation today (see History of beer#Early modern Europe). 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.
* for 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 but has been sold to the Müller dairy group.