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Tennenbach Abbey (German: Kloster Tennenbach) was a Cistercian abbey in what is now the district of Freiamt in the town of Emmendingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It was originally named Porta Coeli (Latin: 'Heaven's Gate').[1]
It was founded around 1158 by monks from Frienisberg Abbey, a daughter house of Lucelle Abbey. Tennenbach later became a daughter house of Morimond Abbey and from 1182 of Salem Abbey. The abbot of Tennenbach was also supervisory abbot of Günterstal Abbey, a nearby nunnery, from shortly after its foundation in 1224 until around 1380.[2]
It was dissolved in 1806 and demolished in 1829, though the abbey's hospital chapel from the second half of the 13th century survives.[3] The abbey church was taken down and rebuilt in Freiburg im Breisgau as a parish church dedicated to Saint Louis; this was destroyed by Allied bombing in 1944 and a new parish church built to replace it.[4]
- ^ 850 Jahre Kloster Tennenbach - Festschrift zum Gründungsjubiläum, Stefan Schmidt
- ^ Klöster in Baden-Württemberg: Zisterzienserabtei Tennenbach
- ^ Kath-Emmendingen.de: Tennenbacher Kapelle
- ^ Johannes Werner: "Zeugnis und Zeichen. Wie das Kloster Tennenbach in Freiburg weiterlebt". In: Badische Heimat. 3/2011, pp. 376–380.