The island of Reichenau on Lake Constance preserves the traces of the Benedictine monastery, founded in 724, which exercised ...
According to tradition, the Benedictine abbey of Herrenchiemsee was established about 765 by Duke Tassilo III of Bavaria at t ...
The religious complex represented by the former Lorsch Abbey with its 1,200-year-old gatehouse, which is unique and in excell ...
Comburg was a Benedictine monastery founded in the late 1070s by the Counts of Comburg-Rothenburg on the site of their castle ...
The former Cistercian monastery in Ebrach is a famous and popular destination. Having a wonderful and unique rose window, the ...
St. Blaise Abbey (Kloster St. Blasien) was a Benedictine monastery. The early history of the abbey is obscure. Its predecesso ...
Münsterschwarzach Abbey, dedicated to the Holy Saviour, the Virgin Mary and Saint Felicity, was founded before 788 as a nunn ...
Zwiefalten Abbey was a Benedictine monastery founded in 1089 at the time of the Investiture Controversy by Counts Gero and Ku ...
Hirsau Abbey was once one of the most important Benedictine abbeys of Germany. In the 11th and 12th century, the monastery wa ...
Gladbach Abbey was a Benedictine abbey founded in 974 by Archbishop Gero of Cologne and the monk Sandrad from Trier. It ...
Eldena Abbey, originally Hilda Abbey, is a former Cistercian monastery. Only ruins survive, which are well known as a frequen ...
Neresheim Abbey was founded in 1095 as a house of (secular) Augustinian Canons, and converted to a Benedictine monastery in 1 ...
The Imperial Abbey of Kempten was an ecclesiastical state of the Holy Roman Empire for centuries until it was annexed to the ...
Cappenberg Castle is a former Premonstratensian monastery. The Counts of Cappenberg, who were related to the Salians an ...
The Monastery of St. Michael on the Heiligenberg (Saints" Mountain), was a branch of the nearby Lorsch Abbey. The ruined comp ...
Marienstatt Abbey is a Cistercian monastery and a pilgrimage site in Streithausen, Rhineland-Palatinate. The abbey has an e ...
Prüm Abbey is a former Benedictine abbey in Prüm founded by the Frankish widow Bertrada the elder and her son Charibert, Co ...
Bergen auf Rügen Abbey was a monastery for Cistercian nuns. It lasted from the end of the 12th century to the early 16th ...
Burtscheid abbey was founded in 997 under Emperor Otto III. The first abbot, Gregor, who came to Burtscheid from Calabria ...
Weingarten Abbey was founded in 1056 by Welf I, Duke of Bavaria. The name Weingarten (vineyard) is documented from about 1123 ...