994 |
The counts of Comburg-Rothenburg purchased the mountain and erected a castle on it |
1078 |
Count Burkhard II of Comburg-Rothenburg donated his castle to the Benedictine Order, which established a monastery here |
1086 |
Monks from Hirsau reformed the monastery, Gunthart became abbot |
12/21/1088 |
Bishop Adalbero of Würzburg consecrated the Monastery Church (Klosterkirche) to Saint Nikolaus |
1098 |
monastery's donator died as a monk at Großcomburg |
In the 12th century |
The monastery experienced its first heyday |
In the 13th century |
The slow decline of the monastery began |
1318 / 1219 |
The monastery went bankrupt and had to pawn the church treasure |
12/5/1488 |
The monastery was converted into a Convent of Canons for noblemen |
1551-1594 |
Dean Erasmus Neustetter had extensive structural changes made to Großcomburg; a well-fortified ring wall and several new building were constructed |
3/25/1632 |
The Württemberg colonel Bernhard Schaffalitzki von Muckendell was given the Convent of Canons by King Gustav Adolf II as a gift as a Swedish colonel in the course of the Thirty Years' War. The canons and canon curates were banished |
1634 |
The former residents returned to Comburg following the battle of Nördlingen |
1706-1715 |
The master builder Joseph Greising designed the new, Baroque hall church |
In the 18th century |
Großcomburg was expanded for the last time |
10/4/1802 |
Württemberg troops took possession of the former monastery in the course of Secularization |
1/12/1803 |
Duke Friedrich II of Württemberg abolished the Convent of Canons |
1807-1810 |
It served as an apanage palace for Prince Paul of Württemberg |
1817-1909 |
The Royal Württemberg Honor Corps of Invalids (Königlich-Württembergisches Ehreninvalidenkorps) was housed at Großcomburg |
1852 |
The Cemetery of Honor Invalid (Ehreninvalidenfriedhof) was laid out to the west of the Granary (Fruchtkasten) |
1905 |
This cemetery was closed |
1926 |
Großcomburg became the seat of the first Home Adult Evening School (Heimvolkshochschule) in Württemberg |
1939-1945 |
Prisoners of war were also housed in the buildings of the former monastery |
1947 |
The first State Academy for Advanced Teacher Training (Staatliche Akademie für Lehrerfortbildung) in Baden-Württemberg for teachers for all types of schools moved in |
In the 2nd half of the 20th century |
The State of Baden-Württemberg restored parts of the buildings and set up an information center for visitors in two phases |