- Reichenbach Priory (Baden-Württemberg)
Reichenbach Monastery or Priory (in German Kloster Reichenbach) was a house of the
Benedictine Order , located atKlosterreichenbach , now part ofBaiersbronn inBaden-Württemberg inGermany .The monastery was founded, against the background of the
Investiture Controversy and theHirsau Reforms , as apriory ofHirsau Abbey , from where it was settled, in1082 ; in1085 the church was dedicated to Saint Gregory the Great by Bishop Gebhard of Konstanz.The Vögte (lords protectors) of the monastery were the Counts of
Eberstein , but the equivalent rights over Hirsau lay with the Counts of Württemberg, who considered that as Reichenbach was a priory of Hirsau, their rights should extend there also. The conflict between the two factions continued until theReformation , when the monastery was turned into aProtestant establishment in 1603. It had been re-catholicised during theThirty Years' War and occupied by monks fromWiblingen Abbey , who however had to leave again after thePeace of Westphalia in 1648.Since then the village of Klosterreichenbach which had developed around the monastery remained
Protestant . The buildings of the former monastery have been partially restored in the 19th and 20th century.References
* Molitor, Stephan, 1997. "Das Reichenbacher Schenkungsbuch", Stuttgart. ISBN 3-17-013148-6
* Keyler, R (ed.), 1999. "Das älteste Urbar des Priorats Reichenbach von 1427". Stuttgart. ISBN 3-17-015562-8External links
*de icon [http://www.lad-bw.de/kloester-bw/klostertexte.php?kreis=&bistum=&alle=&ungeteilt=&art=&orden=&orte=1&buchstabe=K&nr=314&thema=Geschichte Article on Reichenbach in the Baden-Württembergischen Klosterbuch]
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