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St. Blaise Abbey (Black Forest)

Also known as St. Blasien Abbey

St. Blaise Abbey was a Benedictine monastery at St. Blasien in the southern Black Forest, Germany, first recorded in the 9th century. It led a monastic reform movement in the 11th and 12th centuries and founded or reformed many houses in Swabia and Switzerland. Its abbots became princes of the Empire in 1746, and its domed church, rebuilt from 1768, is among the largest in Europe. It was dissolved in 1806.

St. Blaise Abbey (Black Forest)
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Imperial Abbey of Ochsenhausen

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). St. Blaise Abbey (Black Forest). In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/st-blaise-abbey
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