All Saints' Abbey (Black Forest)
All Saints' Abbey may refer to: * All Saints' Abbey (Baden-Württemberg) * All Saints' Abbey (Switzerland) Kloster Allerheiligen (All Saints abbey) is a former Benedictine monastery in the Swiss municipality of Schaffhausen in the Canton of Schaffhausen. The church ''Münster Allerheiligen'' is the oldest building in Schaffhausen, and houses also the ' ...

All Saints' Abbey (Baden-Württemberg)
All Saints' Abbey (Kloster Allerheiligen) was a Premonstratensian monastery near Oppenau in the Black Forest in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located at 620 metres above sea level in the upper valley of the Lierbach. History According to legend, around 1192, Dutchess Uta of Schauenburg considered where to build a monastery in memory of her late husband, Welf VI. She tied a bag of gold to a donkey and set it to roam. At length the donkey threw off the bag at this remote and inaccessible spot and Uta constructed a wooden chapel where it came to rest. The chapel was gradually extended to a Premonstratensian monastery. In 1196 the foundation charter was issued by Duchess Uta of Schauenburg. In 1200 Philip of Swabia recognised the foundation, and in 1204 Pope Innocent III confirmed it. The first abbot was Gerung. In 1248 canons from All Saints were sent to Lorsch Abbey to turn it into a Premonstratensian monastery; and Lorsch was counted as a daughter house of All Saints. ...
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