Lauffen Monastery

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Monastery wall

The monastery Lauffen was a convent in Lauffen . Founded as a Benedictine convent in 1003 at the behest of Emperor Heinrich II , it housed Dominican women in 1285 at the latest , who established an Itzingen convent at the end of the 13th century . In the 14th century, rulership in Lauffen changed from Kurmainz to the Württemberg people . Since the Dominican nuns' monastic life came to a standstill, Premonstratensian women from the Adelberg Monastery took over the monastery in 1466 and received considerable support from sovereign Ulrich V before the Reformation .

In the course of the Peasants' War , the monastery was looted in 1525. The nuns resisted the introduction of the Reformation from 1536 until 1553. During this time the monastery was guarded like a prison until the last prioress finally left. The complex was then used as a reformed women's monastery and received a lordly cloister steward .

As a result of Ferdinand II's edict of restitution of 1629, the Adelberg abbot tried in vain to have it returned.

In the second half of the 18th century Heinrich Friedrich Hölderlin was the cloister steward . His son Friedrich Hölderlin was born here in 1770.

Hölderlin's parents' house

In 1806 the church property was abolished and the Hofmeisterei was also dissolved in 1807, with the Lauffen court cameral office taking over its duties . The buildings that had become inoperable were then largely lost. In the monastery courtyard you can visit the monastery wall, the rebuilt monastery church, a lapidarium and a Holderlin memorial. Hölderlin's parents' house and the remains of a mill are in the neighborhood.

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Coordinates: 49 ° 4 ′ 47.2 ″  N , 9 ° 9 ′ 5 ″  E