Timeline

1227

Beguines from Altheim purchase the estate “Wazzershaf” and rename it “Heiligkreuztal”

1231

Heiligkreuztal is granted the privilege of Papal protection

1233

Membership in the Cistercian Order

1238

The convent is placed under the supervision of the Father Abbot of Salem Eberhard of Rohrdorf

4 July 1256

Consecration of the convent and the church by the Cistercian bishop Siboto of Seefeld

1319

Consecration of the expanded building and the convent church

1490-1551

Major remodeling and expansion work in the style of the late Gothic period under the Abbesses Anna Gremlich and Veronika of Rietheim (1521-1551)

1611-1802

The convent belongs to the region of "Vorderösterreich"(Further Austria)

1632/47

Attacks and looting of the convent by the Swedish

1652

Erection of a new house for the Abbess

1686

Construction of a pharmacy with rooms for the sick

1690-1752

Baroque building influences (church interior, Nuns’ Gallery, Abbess’ Building)

1804

Secularization: abolishing of the convent and transference to Württemberg

1843

The last Cistercians move out

1972

Restoration of the outer walls of the convent church by the state of Baden-Württemberg.  Partial purchase by the Stefanus Community

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Technische Beratung, Gestaltung, Konzept und Umsetzung: Ralf Gatzki und Friederike Rook