Klingenmünster Abbey

Imperial Provostry of Klingenmünster
Reichskloster Klingenmünster
1115–1567
StatusImperial Abbey
CapitalKlingenmünster Abbey
GovernmentTheocracy
Historical eraMiddle Ages
• Founded
before 780 (perhaps 626)
• Gained immediacy from
    Adalbert, Abp Mainz
1115
• Placed under papal
    protection by Pope
    Honorius III


1223
• Converted to secular
    priory by Innocent VIII

18 November 1490
1503–05
• German Peasants' War
1524–26
• Secularised to the Electorate of the Palatinate
1567
Preceded by
Succeeded by
County of Saarbrücken
Electorate of the Palatinate
Today part ofGermany

Klingenmünster Abbey (German: Reichskloster Klingenmünster) was a Benedictine monastery in the village of Klingenmünster in Bad Bergzabern, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.