The first completed wing of the nunnery was consecrated in 1241 and later the same year King Konrad IV declared the abbey free of any Vogt (lay advocate), a rare privilege for German abbeys, which were often subjected to encroachments and abuses by their Vogts.

In 1376, Baindt was granted imperial immediacy, which gave it the status of an Imperial abbey, although it remained subordinate to the abbot of Salem Abbey in spiritual matters.

The abbess was also granted the privilege of lower justice over the then approximately 200 subjects living in Baindt's small territory.

The church, now dedicated to Saint John the Baptist, is home to a depiction of Our Lady of Ludźmierz.

In 1903 the former gatehouse of the abbey was bought by the Franciscan sisters of Heiligenbronn.