All Saints' Abbey ruins
The Allerheiligen monastery in the district of Lierbach dates back to a foundation by Uta von Schauenburg. The monastery was founded between 1191 and 1196. Uta appointed the Premonstratensian order to the monastery. They also administered the estates belonging to the monastery and looked after the neighbouring parishes. From the late 13th century, many pilgrims came to All Saints'.
The monks had the people of the neighbouring communities at heart. As early as the late Middle Ages, they taught the children of the neighbourhood. The monastery experienced its last heyday in the 18th century with a nationally recognised grammar school.
The order ran the monastery until the end of the school year in 1803, after which the buildings stood empty and were auctioned off for demolition in 1816. The remains of the once important complex only began to attract attention again when the nearby waterfalls were made accessible with ladders and stairs around 1840. August von Bayer, the first conservator in Baden, campaigned for the preservation of Allerheiligen from 1844 onwards.
