Alpirsbach Abbey
Alpirsbach Abbey is a former Benedictine monastery and later Protestant seminary located at Alpirsbach in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The monastery was established in the late 11th century and possessed considerable freedoms for an ecclesiastical property at that time, but in the 13th century it became a de facto possession of the Dukes of Teck and then the County of Württemberg.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Monastery
- Denomination: Catholic
- Description: monastery in Bade-Württemberg, Germany
- Address: Klosterplatz 1/1, Alpirsbach, 72275
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Alpirsbacher Klosterbräu and Alpirsbach station.
Alpirsbach station
Bus station
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Alpirsbach station is a bus station, which is situated 420 metres southwest of Alpirsbach Abbey.
Glaswiesen und Glaswald
Nature reserve
Photo: Friedi13, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Glaswiesen und Glaswald is a nature reserve.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ehlenbogen and Kaltbrunn.
Ehlenbogen
Hamlet
Photo: Reutlingendorf, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ehlenbogen is a hamlet, which is situated 3 km north of Alpirsbach Abbey.
Kaltbrunn
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Kaltbrunn is a village, which is situated 4 km west of Alpirsbach Abbey.
Wittichen
Hamlet
Wittichen is a village that belongs to Kaltbrunn in the municipality of Schenkenzell in the district of Rottweil in the southwest German state of Baden-Württemberg. Wittichen is situated 4½ km west of Alpirsbach Abbey.
Alpirsbach Abbey
- Categories: benedictine abbey, religious community, building, and religion
- Location: Alpirsbach, Freudenstadt, Karlsruhe Region, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
48.34616° or 48° 20′ 46″ northLongitude
8.4042° or 8° 24′ 15″ eastElevation
442 metres (1,450 feet)Open location code
8FWC8CW3+FMOpenStreetMap ID
way 292417530OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=monasteryOpenStreetMap feature
building=monasteryOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=catholic
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In Other Languages
From Czech to Spanish—“Alpirsbach Abbey” goes by many names.
- Czech: “Klášter Alpirsbach”
- French: “abbaye d’Alpirsbach”
- French: “Abbaye d’Alpirsbach”
- German: “Benediktinerabtei Alpirsbach”
- German: “Kloster Alpirsbach”
- Polish: “Klasztor Alpirsbach”
- Russian: “Аббатство Альпирсбах”
- Slovak: “Kláštor Alpirsbach”
- Spanish: “Abadía de Alpirsbach”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Alpirsbach Abbey”. Photo: ThomasMuentzer, Public domain.