Originally there was a castle on the Kirchberg; the Lords of Kirchberg were first mentioned in 1095. The monastery was founded in 1237 by Count Burkhard III. von Hohenberg built at the instigation of noble ladies of the House of Hohenberg. In 1245 Pope Innocent IV confirmed the foundation of the monastery. After only ten years, the number of nuns had risen from initially 10 to 60.
In the 14th century, about 100 years later, the nun Elisabeth von Kirchberg recorded reports about the religious life and the experiences of grace of deceased monastery members who gained national fame. They are handed down in a sister book of the monastery, edited in several versions, and in the vita of a sister Irmegard.
In 1381 the County of Hohenberg was sold to Habsburg, and Kirchberg became an enclave in Upper Austria until 1805.
During the secularization, the Upper Austrian monastery came to Württemberg in 1805 and was abolished on October 11, 1806. The nuns were allowed to stay in the monastery for the time being, the last nun left the monastery in 1865.
As early as 1851, an agriculture school was set up in the buildings, and services were held for its pupils in the St. John's Church of the former monastery. In 1941 the agricultural school ceased operations.
In 1956, the Evangelical Michael Brotherhood of the Berneuchen Movement received permission to move into the former monastery building and set up a retreat. The people of Berneuchen have been using the entire monastery grounds since 1970. In 2000 - in addition to being used by the Michael Brotherhood - the agriculture school was reopened.
Since 2000 there has been a permanent exhibition in the monastery on the works of Helmuth Uhrig, who bequeathed his works to the Michael Brotherhood in a will. A "Uhrig-Kreis" in Kirchberg Monastery takes care of special and traveling exhibitions as well as publications about the artist.
Between 1995 and 2001 the editorial team for the ecumenical divine service book ADORU in the international language Esperanto met repeatedly on the Kirchberg. The group of authors therefore called itself “Kirchberg Monastery”.
Today the house community invites groups and individual guests to “breathe a sigh of relief” - this is the title of the annual event plan - for example at choir weeks, confirmation camps or meditation courses