Heggbach Abbey

Imperial Abbey of Heggbach
Reichsabtei Heggbach
1429–1803
Coat of arms
StatusImperial Abbey
CapitalHeggbach Abbey
Common languagesAlemannic
GovernmentTheocracy
Historical eraMiddle Ages
 Founded from
    Maselheim

1231
 Charter confirmed
    spiritual independence

26 June 1248 1429
 Granted immediacy by
    King Sigismund

1429
 Joined Swabian Circle
1500


27 March 1525
 Looted by Sweden
    and France during
    Thirty Years' War


1632–47
 Secularised to
    von Bassenheim
1803
 To Württemberg
1806
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Berg-Schelklingen
County of Bassenheim
Today part ofGermany

Heggbach Abbey (German: Reichsabtei Heggbach) was a Cistercian nunnery in Heggbach, now part of the municipality of Maselheim in the district of Biberach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.