Herrenalb - Abbey

The Cistercian monastery "Alba Dominorum" was founded here in 1149. It was settled by monks from Neubourg Abbey in Alsace (80kms west). The abbey was severely damaged during the German Peasants' War of 1525 and after the Reformation the remaining monks were forced to leave the abbey, that got secularized (and converted in a school for a short time).

The once large abbey church now is "cut" in two different structures. Behind the the ruins of the narthex ("Paradies") in the foreground stands the Lutheran parish church, created out of the old Gothic choir in 1739.