Around 1183/84 |
Palgrave Rudolph I von Tübingen founds Bebenhausen Monastery and allows Premonstratensian monks to settle there. |
June 1187 |
The monastery is mentioned for the first time in a document. |
October 1190 |
Cistercians from Schönau Monastery near Heidelberg take over Bebenhausen Monastery. |
1228 |
The monastery church is consecrated. |
Up to1250 |
The eastern wing of the enclosure is built. |
1281 - 1303 |
Under Abbot Friedrich the inner monastery wall, which surrounds the inner monastery area with the enclosure and the most important outbuildings and the cemetery, is built. |
1320 - 1353 |
The large, High Gothic tracery windows are installed in the chancel of the church. Around |
1335 |
The summer refectory (dining hall) of the monks is rebuilt. December |
1342 |
The city and castle in Tübingen are sold to the dukes of Württemberg, causing the monastery to come under the increasing influence of Württemberg. |
1407-1409 |
The stone bell tower above the square chancel of the church is built. It still rises above the monastery complex today. Around |
1470 - 1500 |
The cloister is rebuilt with rich leafwork ornamentation. |
1513 |
The former lay refectory is converted to a heated winter refectory for the monks. |
1513 - 1516 |
The common dormitory of the monks is divided into 29 individual cells. |
1535 |
Duke Ulrich von Württemberg closes the monastery in the course of the Reformation. During the interim period and as the result of the Edict of Restitution, a small convent returns to the monastery, however is permanently disbanded in 1648. |
1537 |
The western section of the church is torn down and the stones used to build Hohentübingen Palace. |
1556-1560 |
The church is repaired. |
1556 - 1806 |
One of the four higher Protestant monastery schools of the State of Württemberg resides at Bebenhausen Monastery. The founder was Duke Christoph von Württemberg. |
1807 - 1811 |
King Friedrich I von Württemberg has the former abbot's house converted to a hunting palace. |
1819 |
King Wilhelm I transfers Bebenhausen to the State of Württemberg. |
1868 |
King Karl has private rooms established for himself in the former monastery guesthouse |
1885 |
Karl has the Hunting Palace expanded From |
From 1891 |
King Wilhelm and Queen Charlotte use Bebenhausen |
1918 |
Following their abdication in 1918, Wilhelm and Charlotte retire completely to Bebenhausen |
1921 |
Wilhelm dies, and Charlotte continues to live in Bebenhausen until her death |
1946 |
Charlotte dies in Bebenhausen |
1946 -1952 |
The Landtag (state parliament) of Württemberg-Hohenzollern uses the former monastery buildings as a residential and meeting location. |
1958 - 1986 |
The State Building Surveyor's Office in Reutlingen carries out comprehensive repair and restoration measures under the direction of the State Land Registry Office in Tübingen. |
1975 |
The entire Bebenhausen complex is declared a historical monument. |
1986 |
Palace Museum opens 1987 The 800th anniversary of the monastery's founding is celebrated. |
1994 |
Salon of King Wilhelm II is added to the Palace Museum and the renovated kitchen of the palace opened for visitors. |