Heggbach Abbey

Imperial Abbey of Heggbach
Reichsabtei Heggbach
1429–1803
Coat of arms
StatusImperial Abbey
CapitalHeggbach Abbey
Common languagesAlemannic
GovernmentTheocracy
Historical eraMiddle Ages
• Founded from
    Maselheim

1231
• Charter confirmed
    spiritual independence

26 June 1248 1429
• Granted immediacy by
    King Sigismund

1429
• Joined Swabian Circle
1500


27 March 1525
• Looted by Sweden
    and France during
    Thirty Years' War


1632–47
• Secularised to
    von Bassenheim
1803
• To Württemberg
1806
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Berg-Schelklingen
County of Bassenheim
Today part ofGermany

Heggbach Abbey (German: Reichsabtei Heggbach) was a Cistercian nunnery in Heggbach, now part of the municipality of Maselheim in the district of Biberach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.