Ursula was educated at the protestant Stift Altenburg (in Thuringia), where she was also confirmed in 1924; she later attended grammar school in Dresden.
It was in the Dresden house of the protestant preacher Arndt von Kirchbach and his socially and literarily active wife Esther that Ursula zu Münster met her friend Ida Friederike Görres.
After graduating from high school, she studied Protestant theology in Greifswald and Leipzig from 1928 to 1932.
Its director, Dr. Ammann, became her godmother at the confirmation in Cardinal Faulhaber's private chapel in 1935.
[1] After frequent visits and persistent pleading, she was accepted into Saint Walburg Abbey in Eichstätt by her relative, the Abbess M. Benedicta von Spiegel.