Around 1157 |
Schöntal Monastery is founded by Cistercian monks from Maulbronn following a donation by Wolfram of Bebenburg. |
1163 |
The Bishop of Würzburg renews the founding of the monastery. |
1282 |
Abbot Trutwin of Kaisheim Monastery pays all debts of the financially ruined Schöntal Monastery. |
1418 |
The monastery is granted the "Reichsunmittelbarkeit" at the Council of Constance. |
1495 |
The "Reichsunmittelbarkeit" ends. |
1525 |
The monastery suffers great destruction and is completely plundered. |
1617-1618 |
Abbot Theobald Fuchs has the Old Abbey built. |
1618-1648 |
The monastery is repeatedly plundered and at times disbanded during the Thirty Years' War. |
1683 |
Abbot Benedikt Knittel is elected abbot. He heads the monastery for the following 49 years and has the important Baroque buildings of the complex erected during this time. |
From 1708 |
The new Monastery Church is built. |
1802 |
The monastery is disbanded in the course of the Secularization movement. |
1807 |
The Monastery Church is consecrated as a Catholic parish church. |
1810 |
King Friedrich I of Württemberg has a Protestant theological seminary established in Schöntal. |
1975 |
The seminary in Schöntal Monastery is closed. |
1979 |
The diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart opens an adult education center in Schöntal. |