Count Bertold von Bibereck donated in 1126 together with his wife and two brothers Konrad (bishop of Chur) and Siegfried (canon in the diocese of Augsburg) the monastery. The first Premonstratensian choristers came from the not far away monastery Ursberg and built the first Roggenburg monastery church.
In 1444 the monastery was raised to the abbey. The first name of Roggenburg as Reichs immediacy can be demonstrated for 1482/1485 - a realm cementing this status took place in several steps during the first half of the 16th century. Prerequisites for the new imperial immediacy, however, had been reforms in the monastery territory, which in particular strengthened the judicial and Policeywesen. The extensive statutes and statutes of 1573 (see bibliography) are a good example of this.
On Saturday, April 1, 1525, the monastery was looted during the Peasants' War by the rioting farmers of the Leipheimer cluster. The Abbot Jodok and the monks had previously left the monastery, so that the farmers encountered no resistance in the storm on the monastery buildings. The robbery included the preacher and peasant leader Hans Jakob Wehe von Leipheim as well as the Ingstetter farmer captain Jörg Ebner. In the course of the event held by the farmers Jörg Ebner made himself the new abbot of the monastery. On the following day, the monastery was hit again by the arriving farmers of the Illertisser heap, after the Leipheimer had withdrawn, and there was further destruction on and in the buildings.
In the 18th century, the monastery and its parish and subsidiary churches were rebuilt in Baroque style as they still exist today. Among other things, the convent buildings were rebuilt in 1732. In July 1752, the church was rebuilt, which lasted six years and was completed under Abbot Georg Lienhardt.
1802, the imperial pen was occupied after the secularization of Bavarian military. The convent was dissolved and the last abbot Thaddäus Aigler was dismissed from office.
In 1982, Premonstratensians returned to the monastery. On 8 November 1992, the monastery was raised by the Abbey Windberg in the rank of dependent Priorate. In the meantime, an educational institution for family, environment and culture, a museum, a house for art and culture as well as dining facilities have been created in the monastery facilities under their care. In addition, devotional items, wines from monastic cultivation and various products of own production are sold in a monastery shop.
Unfortunately only seen from the outside... A service was in progress and at the same time there was a large construction site around it for the renovation of the portal..
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