Klingenmünster Abbey

Imperial Provostry of Klingenmünster
Reichskloster Klingenmünster
1115–1567
StatusImperial Abbey
CapitalKlingenmünster Abbey
GovernmentTheocracy
Historical eraMiddle Ages
 Founded
before 780 (perhaps 626)
 Gained immediacy from
    Adalbert, Abp Mainz
1115
 Placed under papal
    protection by Pope
    Honorius III


1223
 Converted to secular
    priory by Innocent VIII

18 November 1490
1503–05
 German Peasants' War
1524–26
 Secularised to the Electorate of the Palatinate
1567
Preceded by
Succeeded by
County of Saarbrücken
Electorate of the Palatinate
Today part ofGermany

Klingenmünster Abbey (German: Reichskloster Klingenmünster) was a Benedictine monastery in the village of Klingenmünster in Bad Bergzabern, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.