Limburg Abbey

The abbey church was completed under Conrad's son, Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor.

[2] Limburg Abbey was repeatedly damaged by the power struggles that ensued in the Rhine region.

The Emperor had been expecting to make a ceremonial entrance representing Christ the King entering Jerusalem in glory, only to find the bishop and canons already celebrating Advent.

[5] The statue of the crowned Mother of God, who carries the blessing Christ child on her left arm and holds an apple in her right hand was found in the 1830s in the village of Grethen near the ruins of the Limburg monastery.

Stylistically, it is close to Upper Rhine, especially Freiburg and Strasbourg, works from the late 13th century, and is therefore dated to around 1300.