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Alpirsbach Abbey

1090s establishments in the Holy Roman Empire1095 establishments in Europe1535 disestablishments in the Holy Roman EmpireBenedictine monasteries in GermanyBuildings and structures in Freudenstadt (district)
Christian monasteries established in the 11th centuryMonasteries dissolved under the Protestant ReformationMonasteries in Baden-Württemberg
Alpirsbach Kloster
Alpirsbach Kloster

Alpirsbach Abbey (Kloster Alpirsbach) is a former Benedictine monastery and later Protestant seminary located at Alpirsbach in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The monastery was established in the late 11th century and possessed considerable freedoms for an ecclesiastical property at that time, but in the 13th century it became a de facto possession of the Dukes of Teck and then the County of Württemberg. In the 15th century, the monastery enjoyed economic prosperity and was expanded but was dissolved with the conversion of the by-then Duchy of Württemberg to Lutheranism in the 16th century. The monastery became a seminary and boarding school until the 17th century and was physically reduced over the 19th century by land sales and demolition. Over the second half of the 20th century, the monastery was turned into a cultural fixture with annual concerts of Classical music and a museum of its history.

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Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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