Dedicated to John the Baptist, the Steingaden abbey was founded in 1147 as a Premonstratensian house by Welf VI, third son of ...
Schäftlarn Abbey was founded in 762 by Waltrich, a Benedictine monk of noble family, on his own land. During the next two ce ...
Heisterbach Abbey was a Cistercian monastery in the Siebengebirge near Oberdollendorf. The tradition of its origin is th ...
St. Pauli Monastery is a former Dominican monastery located in the Neustadt district of Brandenburg an der Havel. Today, it h ...
Heilsbronn Abbey was a Cistercian monastery at Heilsbronn founded in 1132–33 by Saint Otto of Bamberg. It was settled by mo ...
St. Matthias' Abbey is a Benedictine monastery in Trier. The abbey church, a Romanesque basilica, is a renowned place of pilg ...
The Dominican monastery at Prenzlau was founded in 1275, joining an existing Franciscan monastery and the Nunnery of Mary Mag ...
Tholey Abbey is a Benedictine monastery dedicated to Saint Maurice. As early as the 5th and 6th centuries a group of clerics ...
Near Essen Saint Ludger founded a monastery in 799 and became its first abbot. The little church which Saint Ludger built h ...
Rottenbuch Abbey was founded as an Augustinian monastery in 1073 on land granted by Duke Welf I of Bavaria. The Abbey church ...
Schussenried Abbey was a Premonstratensian monastery founded by the local landowners, Berengar and Konrad of Schussenried in ...
Bornhofen monastery was built in 1680-1684 to the site of older church. The church houses a number of art treasures. The cen ...
Amorbach Abbey was one of four Carolingian foundations intended to establish Christianity in the region of the Odenwald. It i ...
Cologne Charterhouse (Kölner Kartause) was a Carthusian monastery established in 1334. The monastery developed into the l ...
Kastl Abbey, dedicated to Saint Peter, was founded in 1103 or shortly before by Count Berengar II of Sulzbach together with F ...
Scheyern Abbey was established in 1119 as the final site of the community originally founded in around 1077 at Bayrischzell b ...
Between 1115 and 1118 the Augustinian monastery was established in Sankt Märgen by Count Bruno von Haigerloch-Wiesneck, ...
Lorch Abbey is a former Benedictine family monastery of the Staufer family. It was founded around 1102 by the Duke Friedrich ...
Beuron Archabbey is a major house of the Benedictine Order. It was founded in 1863 by the brothers Maurus and Placidus Wolter ...
Neuburg Abbey was founded in 1130 by Anshelm, a monk from the Benedictine Lorsch Abbey, as a priory of Lorsch. It did not thr ...