Baindt Abbey
| Imperial Abbey of Baindt | ||||||||||
| Reichskloster Baindt | ||||||||||
| Imperial Abbey of the Holy Roman Empire | ||||||||||
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 Baindt Abbey; drawing of 1889, based on earlier image
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| Capital | Baindt Abbey | |||||||||
| Government | Elective principality | |||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | |||||||||
| • | Founded | 1240 | ||||||||
| • | Gained immediacy | 1376 | ||||||||
| • | Destroyed in German Peasants' War |
1525 |
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| • | Destroyed in Thirty Years' War | 1643 | ||||||||
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Secularised to Aspermont-Linden |
1802 | ||||||||
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| Today part of |
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The Imperial Abbey of Baindt (German: Reichskloster Baindt) was a Cistercian nunnery in Baindt in the district of Ravensburg in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
The abbey was founded in 1240 by Konrad of Winterstetten in the hamlet of Baind and nuns from the Cistercian abbey of Boos moved in the same year. The first completed monastery wing was consecrated in 1241 and later the same year King Konrad IV declared the abbey free of any vogt (lay advocate), a rare privilege for German abbeys, often subjected to encroachments and abuses by their vogt. In 1376, Baindt was granted imperial immediacy, which gave it the status of an Imperial abbey, although it remained subordinate to the abbot of Salem Abbey in spiritual matters. The abbess was also granted the privilege of lower justice over the then approximately 200 subjects living in Baindt’s small territory. That privilege was confirmed during the first half of the 18th century.
As an Imperial Estate, the abbess had seat and voice in the Imperial Diet as a member of the Swabian bench of prelates. She also had seat and voice in the diet of the Swabian Circle.
The nunnery was decimated during the Black Death and destroyed in 1525 in the German Peasants' War and again in 1643 in the Thirty Years' War. It was rebuilt and refurbished in Baroque style in the 18th century.
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