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Bad Herrenalb monastery ruins

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Bad Herrenalb monastery ruins

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    June 21, 2025

    Hiking

    The entrance to the Protestant monastery church is reached through the ruins of the former late Romanesque vestibule, built around 1200.
    The porch, known as Paradise, was raised in the late Gothic period in 1462.
    Paradise served as a meeting place for lay brothers (conversi) and as a burial place for the local nobility.
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    September 16, 2021

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    "... In 1525 the monastery complex was badly damaged during the Peasants' War. Parts of the furnishings, the library and the archive were lost at the time. After Duke Ulrich …
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    A few buildings from the former monastery complex are still there today: the monastery gate, remains of the Romanesque vestibule and the paradise, which served as a meeting room for converses and as a burial place.
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    Location: Bad Herrenalb, Calw, Karlsruhe District, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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