Origin from 1130
Neuburg Abbey is a Benedictine monastery dedicated to Saint Bartholomew near Heidelberg in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, founded in 1130 as a priory by Anshelm, a monk from Lorsch Abbey. Its community changed character repeatedly over the centuries: it became a nunnery in 1195 by order of Conrad of Hohenstaufen, passed to the Cistercians around 1303, and was suppressed during the Reformation in 1562, after which the site served secular uses including a period as Jesuit property from 1706 to 1773. The poet and mystic Alexander von Bernus later held the property until it was reacquired for the Benedictines in 1926 and resettled by monks from Beuron Archabbey, gaining full abbey status in 1928. The community sheltered elderly residents left homeless by wartime bombing during the Second World War, and its church was restored and rededicated in 1960; it remains an active Benedictine abbey today as part of the Beuronese Congregation.
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