St. Stephen's Abbey, Würzburg

St. Stephen's Abbey dates back to the collegiate monastery of St. Peter and Paul, founded by Henry of Rothenburg, Bishop of Würzburg about 1014, for regular canons who followed the Rule of St. Chrodegang.

After a short period of decline in the first half of the fifteenth century, the abbey joined the reform Bursfelde Congregation in 1459.

[1] The abbey of St. Jakob zu den Schotten was founded around 1134 by from the Scots monastery at Ratisbon.

He wrote the history of several Franconian saints and monasteries, and edited "Collectio novissima scriptorum et rerum Wireceburgensium a saecula XVI hactenus gestarum" (4 vols., Frankfort and Würzburg, 1741–50).

In 1789, the monks under Abbot Gerhard III von Winterstein replaced the Romanesque basilica with a new neoclassical building, designed by Johann Philipp Geigel.