Alspach Monastery
The monastery Alspach was built in the 12th century monastery near Kaysersberg in Upper Alsace ( France ).
It was a Poor Clare monastery until the secularization of 1789/90 and was then gradually demolished for the purpose of building surrounding houses and industrial buildings. Parts of the choir stalls and the rococo-style choir altars by Gabriel Ignaz Ritter (1732–1813) were transferred to the Dominican church in Colmar , where they can still be viewed today.
The former convent church with its Romanesque tympanum is now surrounded by mountains of paper and appears unreal directly on the company premises of a cardboard box factory at the western exit of Kaysersberg in the Gregoriental , where the former Pairis monastery was not far away . Visits are only possible by prior arrangement at the tourist office in Kaysersberg.
A partially preserved farm building of the monastery stands at the foot of a vineyard in the village of Kientzheim and is now operated as a hotel.
literature
- Hans Haug, Robert Will: Alsace romane , Éditions Zodiaque (Collection "la nuit des temps" No. 22), 2nd edition, La Pierre-qui-Vire 1970, p. 24 [not evaluated]
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Coordinates: 48 ° 9 ′ 12.1 ″ N , 7 ° 14 ′ 9.9 ″ E