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 Muenchsteinach
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Founded in the year 1102 the original Benedictine monastery was finally finished in 1180. The only building of that time which remained preserved is minster Saint Nikolaus, which was built between 1139 and 1180. It is a basilica with three naves and a cruciform ground-plan.
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One of the two towers probably collapsed in the 17th century and was not reconstructed. For 350 years the Romanesque building was used as monastery church of the flourishing monastery of Muenchsteinach. During the Peasants’ War and the Reformation era the monastery was destroyed partly and secularized later.  |
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