About A.D. 1087, Saint Ulrich of Zell, a monk of the Abbey of Cluny, founded Bollschweil Priory, a monastery of nuns, which was moved in 1115 to nearby Sölden[1] and became known as Sölden Priory.
This foundation was a complement to the monastery he had founded at Grüningen and later moved to Zell, afterwards known as St. Ulrich's Priory in the Black Forest (German: Priorat des sankt Ulrich im Schwarzwald).
Sölden was a priory directly subject to Cluny, as was the norm in that reform congregation of the Order of St. Benedict.
The community consisted of approximately 13 to 20 nuns under a prior appointed by Cluny.
Of the monastic buildings still remaining, the oldest portions date from the 15th century.