Schönau Abbey (Odenwald)

Coordinates: 49°26′09″N 8°48′34″E / 49.43583°N 8.80944°E / 49.43583; 8.80944
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Protestant church, formerly the refectory of Schönau Abbey

Schönau Abbey (Kloster Schönau) in

Cistercian monastery founded in 1142 from Eberbach Abbey.[1]
The present settlement of Schönau grew up round the monastery.

History

Schönau Abbey was founded in 1142 by Burchard II von Asorn,

Vogtei of Schönau Abbey. Around 1190, Rudolph I, Count Palatine of Tübingen gave the Cistercians the abandoned Premonstratensian abbey of Bebenhausen. It became a daughter house of Schönau.[2]

During the

Huguenot refugees from Wallonia.[3]

Burials

By the end of the 12th century Schönau was already in use as a burial place of the

Conrad II, Bishop of Hildesheim
, died here and was presumably also buried here.

In the 14th century Schönau was also the burial place of the Counts of Erbach.

Buildings

Physical remains of the abbey include the abbey church of c. 1230, and also the abbey gateway (c. 1200), the former refectory, and the "Walloon forge" (the former abbey forge, renovated by the Huguenot refugees from Wallonia after 1558).

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49°26′09″N 8°48′34″E / 49.43583°N 8.80944°E / 49.43583; 8.80944