Kniebis Monastery

Ruins of the monastery, state of preservation 2006

The Kniebis monastery in Kniebis in the Black Forest existed from 1277 to 1535. First a community of Franciscan Terziaren , in 1341 it became a priory of the Benedictine monastery Alpirsbach .

The monastery emerged from a chapel first mentioned in 1267 at the pass of the trade route between Ulm and Strasbourg . The chapel, cared for by Franciscans, was given to the convent by Heinrich von Fürstenberg in 1278 . In 1341 the convent submitted to the Alpirsbach monastery. Fires destroyed the monastery in 1463 and 1513. Duke Ulrich von Württemberg abolished the monastery during the Reformation .

literature

• Hansmartin Schwarzmeier: Roads and traffic routes in the northern Black Forest in the course of its development in the High Middle Ages. In: ZGO , Volume 155, 2007, pp. 19–53.

Web links

Commons : Kniebis Monastery  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Kniebis Benedictine Priory in the database of monasteries in Baden-Württemberg of the Baden-Württemberg State Archives

Coordinates: 48 ° 28 ′ 18.5 "  N , 8 ° 18 ′ 38.4"  E