It is the only new settlement in the old Rotenburg an der Fulda district to arise since the Thirty Years' War.

In 1582, Philipp Wilhelm von Cornberg, a son of William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel born out of wedlock, acquired the monastery and its lands as a fief.

Philipp Wilhelm sold it in 1598 to his half-brother Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, who transferred it in 1627 to the so-called Rotenburger Quart.

It became a Vogtei that remained in the ownership of the Landgraves of Hesse-Rotenburg until they died out in 1834, whereupon it passed back to the Electorate of Hesse.

The former two-naved church (the cloister's north wing) with the still preserved nuns’ gallery is used today as a cultural stage.

From 1945 to 1949, the whole community of Cornberg and the monastery were a UNRRA displaced persons camp mainly for people from the Soviet Union and Poland who were conscripted as forced labourers during WWII.