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Blaubeuren Abbey () was a
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monastery until the Reformation, located in
Blaubeuren Blaubeuren () is a town in the district of Alb-Donau near Ulm in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. it had 11,963 inhabitants. Geography Geographical location The core city Blaubeuren lies at the foot of the Swabian Jura, west of Ulm. Neighbori ...
,
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,
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. It is now a Protestant seminary.


History: Catholic

The monastery was founded in 1085 by the
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and their vassal Sigiboto von Ruck, against the background of the
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and the
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. The first abbot, Adzelinus, and monks were from
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.Klöster in Baden-Württemberg: Benediktinerabtei Blaubeuren - Geschichte
/ref>Abbot Fabri was closely involved with the foundation of the
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in 1477. In 1493 the high altar was created. The choir stalls by Jörg Syrlin the Younger are of a similar date.Moraht-Fromm and Wolfgang Schürle, 2002 The
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saw the end of the
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monastery, from which the monks were expelled in 1535, returning for a short time between 1549 and 1562.


History: Protestant

In 1563 the first
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abbot was appointed, and in 1565 a choir school was opened in the premises. During the
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the monks returned again in 1630 and yet again in 1648, but were expelled; the choir school closed in 1630 and reopened in 1650. It was finally shut down in 1807. A few years later in 1817 Blaubeuren became a Protestant seminary with an attached boarding school, which has remained to the present, except for a closure during
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.Blaubeuren Protestant Seminary
/ref> The school now operates in co-operation with the similar establishment at
Maulbronn Abbey Maulbronn Monastery () is a former Cistercian abbey and Prince-bishopric, ecclesiastical state in the Holy Roman Empire located at Maulbronn, Baden-Württemberg. The monastery complex, one of the best-preserved in Europe, was named a UNESCO World ...
: see Evangelical Seminaries of Maulbronn and Blaubeuren.


References


Further reading

* Carl Baur: ''Das Kloster zu Blaubeuren. Ein Führer, Kunstfreunden und Fremden gewidmet von Carl Baur'', Blaubeuren 1877. * Hermann Dilger: ''Kloster, Klosterschule und Seminar.'' In: ''Blaubeuren 700 Jahre Stadt.'' Blaubeuren 1967. * Otto-Günter Lonhard: ''900 Jahre Kloster Blaubeuren. Kritische Überlegungen zur Gründungsgeschichte (1180-1125).'' In: ''Zeitschrift für Württembergische Landesgeschichte'' 46 (1987), pp. 368–377. * Gerhard Dopffel (ed.): ''Kloster Blaubeuren – 900 Jahre.'' Theiss, Stuttgart 1985, * Immo Eberl (ed.): ''Kloster Blaubeuren. 1085–1985. Benediktinisches Erbe und evangelische Seminartradition''. Exhibition catalogue. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1985, * Otto-Günter Lonhard: ''Das Kloster Blaubeuren im Mittelalter. Rechts- u. Wirtschaftsgeschichte einer schwäbischen Benediktinerabtei'' (= ''Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Geschichtliche Landeskunde in Baden-Württemberg.'' Bd. 25). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1963. * Rainer Kahsnitz: ''Blaubeuren, ehemalige Abteikirche St. Johannes der Täufer, Hochaltar.'' In: The same: ''Die großen Schnitzaltäre. Spätgotik in Süddeutschland, Österreich, Südtirol'' with photographs by Achim Bunz. Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zürich 2005,
online (PDF, 3.1 MB)
* Anna Moraht-Fromm and Wolfgang Schürle (eds.): ''Kloster Blaubeuren. Der Chor und sein Hochaltar.'' Theiss, Stuttgart 2002. * Christian Kayser: ''Mönchszellen, Spitztonnen, Formziegel – Untersuchungen am Dormentbau und Kapitelsaal des ehemaligen Klosters Blaubeuren.'' In: ''Denkmalpflege in Baden-Württemberg'', 44. Jahrgang 2014, Heft 1, pp. 33–38.
PDF; 5.4 MB
). * Christian Kayser: ''Das ehemalige Benediktinerkloster Blaubeuren. Bauforschung an einer Klosteranlage des Spätmittelalters'' (= ''Forschungen und Berichte der Bau- und Kunstdenkmalpflege in Baden-Württemberg.'' Bd. 17). Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2020,


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