Kloster Hornbach, Hornbach

Name: Kloster Hornbach
Address: Hornbach, Germany

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Hornbach Abbey is a former monastery founded around 741 in the historic town of Gamundias by Saint Pirmin, which soon became a Benedictine abbey. The most important neighbouring abbeys were Bausendorf, Saint-Avold, Glandern, Villers-Bettnach, Fraulautern, Mettlach, Tholey, and the stift of St. Arnual. The neighboring spiritual centers were Trier and Metz. At present, all that remains of Hornbach Abbey are the structural remains of the convent buildings, which have been supplemented by a monastery museum, and a modern chapel with the historical tomb of the monastery's founder. ()

Alternative names: Coordinates: 49°11'13"N, 7°22'11"E

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Kloster Hornbach – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Heilig-Kreuz-Kapelle, Zweibrücken Castle, Zweibrücken Observatory, Karlskirche.

6.2 miNW
Church
Heilig-Kreuz-Kapelle, Blieskastel
160 min walk • The Holy Cross Chapel also known as the Gnadenkapelle is located on the Han above Blieskastel in Saarland. As a place of pilgrimage, it belongs to the Blieskastel Monastery, built in 1929, and is visited by around 80,000 pilgrims annually.
4.3 miN
Baroque architecture, Forts and castles
Zweibrücken Castle, Zweibrücken
110 min walk • Zweibrücken Castle is a building in the town of Zweibrücken, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. It was built as a ducal palace in 1720-1725. It is the largest and most magnificent secular building in the Palatinate. It is now the seat of the Palatine Higher Regional Court, and of the Zweibrücken law courts.
5.2 miN
Museum, Observatories and planetariums
Zweibrücken Observatory, Zweibrücken
132 min walk • Zweibrücken Observatory, or the Zweibrück Observatory of the Natural Science Association, is a public observatory in Zweibrücken, Germany. Its dome was painted to resemble the Star Wars character R2-D2 in 2018.
4.2 miN
Church, Baroque architecture
Karlskirche, Zweibrücken
108 min walk • The Karlskirche is a church in Zweibrücken built in 1715, destroyed in 1945, rebuilt in 1970. It is one of two landmarks of the town with Alexander's Church. It was court church from 1733 to 1858. Its congregation forms part of today's United Evangelical Church of the Palatinate.
6.1 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Schwarzbach
156 min walk • The Schwarzbach is a river in southwestern Germany, left tributary of the Blies. Its source is in the Palatinate Forest, near Trippstadt. It flows through the states Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland. Towns along its course are Waldfischbach-Burgalben, Contwig and Zweibrücken. After 50 km, it flows into the Blies in Homburg-Einöd.
~120 ftW
49°11'13"N • 7°22'9"E
Historama, Hornbach
1 min walk • Museum
4.2 miN
Church
Alexanderkirche, Zweibrücken
107 min walk • The Alexander Church in Zweibrücken was a late Gothic hall church that was rebuilt in a greatly simplified form after being destroyed in World War II.
4.4 miN
Church
Church of the Holy Cross, Zweibrücken
112 min walk • The Church of the Holy Cross is a Catholic parish church in Zweibrücken. Next to the Alexander Church and the Karlskirche, it is the third oldest church building in Zweibrücken's city center in terms of construction history.
4.3 miN
Building
Pfälzisches Oberlandesgericht Zweibrücken, Zweibrücken
110 min walk • The Palatine Higher Regional Court in Zweibrücken is one of two Higher Regional Courts in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, along with the Higher Regional Court in Koblenz.
5.6 miW
Church
Protestantische Kirche Breitfurt
143 min walk • The Protestant Church of Breitfurt is the parish church of the Protestant parish in Breitfurt, Saarland, in the Zweibrücken church district of the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate.
2.8 miSW
Church
St. Andreas
72 min walk • St. Andrew's Church is a Catholic parish church in Altheim, a district of Blieskastel in the Saarland district of Saarpfalz. The patron saint of the church is St. Andrew. In the monument list of the Saarland, the church is listed as a single...