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The founding of this monastery can be traced back to the scottish-irish missionary St. Trudpert (according to medieval documents), who was in the southern Black Forest in the 7th century.
He founded an hermitage that in the 9th century grew into a "proper" Benedectine monastery (the first on the east side of the Rhine). In the 10th century the monastery gained the support of an Alsacian noble family (Luitfride) and two relics of St Trudpert were brought there.
At least until the 13th century the monastery had close ties to the Bishops of Strassbourg, the monastery continued to grow and prosper (esp the starting silver mining in the valley, though in the late 13th, early 14th century there was a depression when the main mining village was destroyed by troops from Freiburg). During the "Bauernkriege" ("farmer wars) in the 16th century the monastery was damaged and looted.
1806 it was secularized and fell to the grand dukes of Baden. Today it is once again a monastery, though this time for nuns instead of monks - the main house of the "Sisters of Saint Josph" ("Schwestern vom Heiligen Joseph zu Saint Marc"), with a "retirement home".

The buildings that are seen today are to a large part Baroque, planned by the architect Peter Thumb. But parts of the gothic 3-ship basillica remain - the choir that was built in 1436, sadly the westwork didn't survive the destructions wrought by the Swedes in 1632.

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This is a 5-shot panorama of the central complex
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Location: St. Trudpert, Münstertal (near Staufen, at the foot of the Black Forest), Germany
47° 51′ 49" N, 7° 48′ 11" O [link]

Description
The founding of this monastery can be traced back to the scottish-irish missionary St. Trudpert (according to medieval documents), who was in the southern Black Forest in the 7th century.
He founded an hermitage that in the 9th century grew into a "proper" Benedectine monastery (the first on the east side of the Rhine). In the 10th century the monastery gained the support of an Alsacian noble family (Luitfride) and two relics of St Trudpert were brought there.
At least until the 13th century the monastery had close ties to the Bishops of Strassbourg, the monastery continued to grow and prosper (esp the starting silver mining in the valley, though in the late 13th, early 14th century there was a depression when the main mining village was destroyed by troops from Freiburg). During the "Bauernkriege" ("farmer wars) in the 16th century the monastery was damaged and looted.
1806 it was secularized and fell to the grand dukes of Baden. Today it is once again a monastery, though this time for nuns instead of monks - the main house of the "Sisters of Saint Josph" ("Schwestern vom Heiligen Joseph zu Saint Marc"), with a "retirement home".

The buildings that are seen today are to a large part Baroque, planned by the architect Peter Thumb. But parts of the gothic 3-ship basillica remain - the choir that was built in 1436, sadly the westwork didn't survive the destructions wrought by the Swedes in 1632.

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This is a 5-shot panorama of the central complex
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Location: St. Trudpert, Münstertal (near Staufen, at the foot of the Black Forest), Germany
47° 51′ 49" N, 7° 48′ 11" O [link]