Klosterreichenbach - Monastery

The Reichenbach Monastery ("Kloster Reichenbach") was founded in 1082 as the first priory of Hirsau Abbey. Abbot Wilhelm of Hirsau sent eight monks from Hirsau, to settle the place. The building of the church must have started immediately as already three years later the church, dedicated to Gregory the Great, got consecrated. It is hard to imagine, that the church seen today, was built within only three years, but it may well be, that the Bishop of Konstanz consecrated, while the work was still in progress.

The priory existed upto the Reformation, when the whole area turned Protestant. Today the church is the parochial Lutheran church of Klosterreichenbach.

The structure went through two large rebuildings/renovations. According to Heinfried Wischermann ("Romanik in Baden Wuerttemberg") the eastern apses were rebuilt during the first in 1894/95. The blue clock face - and the surrounding ornaments are from that time probably as well.