Baindt Abbey
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Baindt Abbey (Kloster or Reichskloster Baindt) was a Cistercian nunnery in Baindt in the district of Ravensburg in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
[edit] Cistercians
The abbey was founded in 1240 by Konrad of Winterstetten. It became "reichsunmittelbar" (territorially independent) in 1376, although it was subordinate to Salem Abbey.
It was destroyed in 1525 in the Peasants' War and again in 1649 in the Thirty Years' War. It was rebuilt and refurbished in the Baroque style in the 18th century.
It was dissolved in the secularisation of 1802 and its territory transferred to the Counts of Aspermont-Linden.
The abbey church of Our Lady became the parish church, to which the remains of the founder were transferred in 1842, after demolition of the claustral buildings had begun in 1841.
[edit] Franciscans
In 1903 the former gatehouse of the abbey was bought by the Franciscan sisters of Heiligenbronn.
[edit] References
- Beck, O. (ed.), 1990: Baindt. Hortus floridus. Geschichte und Kunstwerke der früheren Zisterzienserinnen-Reichsabtei. Festschrift zur 750-Jahrfeier der Klostergründung, 1240–1990. Munich and Zurich: Schnell und Steiner. ISBN 3-7954-0727-3
- Beck, O., nd: Kath. Pfarrkirche St. Johannes Baptist in Baindt. Kunstverlag Josef Fink. ISBN 3-931820-87-4
