Heilsbronn

Heilsbronn, a Bavarian village of middle Franconia, 16 miles SW. of Nuremberg by rail, was the seat of a celebrated Cistercian monastery, which owed its origin to Bishop Otho of Bamberg in 1132. Nearly all the burgraves of Nuremberg were buried here till the end of the 15th century, when it became the burial-place of the Franconian branch of the Hohenzollerns. Although the monastery was suppressed in 1555, the church still retains a large number of highly-interesting sepulchral monuments and other examples of medieval German art. See works by Stillfried (1877) and Muck (3 vols. 1879-80).