Rottenmünster Abbey
Imperial Abbey of Rottenmünster Reichskloster Rottenmünster | |
|---|---|
| Status | Imperial Abbey |
| Government | Elective principality |
| Historical era | Middle Ages |
• Founded | 1221 |
• Refounded as a Cistercian Monastery | 1224 |
• Granted Imperial immediacy | 1237 |
• Looted in Thirty Years' War | first third of the 17th century |
• Burnt to the ground by Württemberg soldiers | 1643 |
| 1802 | |
| Today part of | Germany |
Rottenmünster Abbey, also the Imperial Nunnery of Rottenmünster (German: Kloster Rottenmünster), was a Cistercian abbey located near Rottweil in Baden-Württemberg. The self-ruling Imperial Abbey was secularized in the course of the German mediatization of 1802–1803 and its territory annexed to the Duchy of Württemberg. The monastery was closed in 1850. The buildings of the former abbey now house a hospital.