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Heidenheim Minster and Monastery Complex

Heidenheim Minster and Monastery Complex

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Heidenheim Minster and Monastery Complex

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Location: Altmühltal, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany

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Antje und Klaus auf Tour 👣

December 29, 2021

There are four large tapestries in the cathedral that show the time of Christianization. The former monastery was built in a strategically important location due to the springs.

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Stefan V.

August 15, 2021

Church building from the 12th century, choir redesigned in the 15th century, Wunibaldstumba, Walburgis burial chapel, cloister, lapidarium, heath fountain.

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Former monastery church: Romanesque, three-aisled pillar basilica with transept, vestibule and two west towers (1160 -1180). In place of the Romanesque choir with five apses, a Gothic choir from the 14th/15th century. Century Important tombs: in the crossing Tumba of St. Wunibald, in the western part a burial chapel with Tumba of St. Walburga, in the northern aisle tombs of abbots, monastery bailiffs and nobles.

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naturpark-altmuehltal.de/gehenswertes/muenster_und_klosteranlage_hei-1772

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October 30, 2024

Heidenheim Abbey is a former Benedictine monastery founded in 752 by Saint Wunibald, abbot of the monastery, and his brother Willibald, Bishop of Eichstätt, as a missionary post.

After Willibald's death, his sister, Saint Walburga, took over the management of the monastery as a double monastery for men and women.

The first church was built and consecrated in 778. From 878 to 1188, a new Romanesque building with a nave and transept was constructed as St. Wunibald's Minster, which was expanded with a Gothic choir in 1363.

St. Wunibald's Minster contains the Walburga grave monument with Walburgis's grave and gravestone from around 1200, and the tomb of St. Wunibald from 1484.

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Heidenheim Minster and Monastery Complex

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3. View of Spielberg – St. Walburga Catholic Church loop from Heidenheim

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