Dominican Monastery

The monastery's origins date back to 1233, when Bishop Siegfried of Regensburg donated a building site for a community of pious women. Four years later, the parish of Schwarzhofen was granted to the monastery for its financing, enabling the construction of a church. This was built between 1237 and 1244, featuring a single-nave longhouse and a three-sided choir. In 1246, the convent was officially handed over to the Dominican Order. A Romanesque crucifix, which gave the monastery its name, was moved into the church in 1669. Reform efforts led to the incorporation of sisters from the St. Katharinen Convent in Nuremberg in 1484. During the secularization after 1800, the monastery survived on the condition of opening a girls' school.