Blaubeuren Abbey

Blaubeuren Abbey changed into a residence of the Benedictine Order positioned in Blaubeuren, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany. The monastery became founded in 1085 by the Counts of Ruck and Tubingen, in opposition to the historical past of the Investiture Controversy and the Hirsau Reforms. The first abbot, Adzelinus, and monks had been from Hirsau Abbey. Abbot Fabri was carefully concerned with the foundation of the University of Tubingen in 1477. In 1493 the high altar become created. The choir stalls via Jorg Syrlin the more youthful are of a comparable date.

The Reformation noticed the stop of the Roman Catholic monastery, from which the monks were expelled in 1535, returning for a short time between 1549 and 1562. In 1563 the primary Protestant abbot become appointed, and in 1565 a choir faculty became opened in the premises. During the 30 Years' War the clergymen again once more in 1630 and yet again in 1648, however have been expelled; the choir college closed in 1630 and reopened in 1650.

It was subsequently shut down in 1807. A few years later in 1817 Blaubeuren have become a Protestant seminary with an attached boarding school, which has remained to the existing, besides for a closure in the course of World War II. The faculty now operates in co-operation with the same establishment at Maulbronn Abbey: see Evangelical Seminaries of Maulbronn and Blaubeuren.