Abbeys, Monasteries and Priories in Alsace

Abbaye
68230 Turckheim

Munster Abbey in Turckheim, a 13th century Benedictine state court, includes a house, barn and chapel. Located in Alsace, it illustrates medieval and classical architecture after renovations in the 16th and 18th centuries.

Eglise romane
68240 Kaysersberg Vignoble

The Priory of Alspach, founded in the 11th century near Kaysersberg Vineyard (Great East), is a former Benedictine monastery and then clarisse, whose 12th century Romanesque remains have been classified as a historical monument since 1898.

Eglise romane
67530 Saint-Nabor

Sainte-Marie de Niedermunster Abbey, founded in the 7th century by Saint Odile in Saint-Nabor (Great East), is an ancient Benedictine abbey classified as a historic monument since 1846, now in ruins after centuries of destruction and plunder.

Abbaye
67350 Dauendorf

The abbey of Neubourg, a former 12th century Cistercian abbey located in Dauendorf, Alsace, remains today only in the state of protected ruins as a historical monument since 1990.

Abbaye
67140 Andlau

The Abbey of Andlau, a Benedictine abbey founded in 880 in Andlau (Bas-Rhin), was an influential monastery under the Holy Empire, led by princesses-abbesses until the Revolution.

Abbaye
67210 Obernai

The Truttenhausen Abbey, founded in the 12th century near Obernai in the Great East, was an Augustinian priory and a hospice for pilgrims, today in ruins with some Gothic and Romanesque remains.

Abbaye
67600 Ebersmunster

Ebersmunster Abbey, a former Benedictine abbey founded in the 7th century in Ebersmunster (Bas-Rhin), is an Alsatian Baroque jewel. Its church, rebuilt in the 18th century by Peter Thumb, dominates the religious heritage of the Great East.

Eglise romane
68490 Ottmarsheim

The abbey and church of Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul d'Ottmarsheim, founded in the 11th century in Alsace, is a rare octagonal building inspired by the Palatine chapel of Aix-la-Chapelle, mixing Byzantine, Carolingian and Ottonian styles in the Great East.