Söflingen Monastery

Söflingen Monastery, located three kilometers west of the center of the German city of Ulm, was built in 1258 by order of Count Dillingen as a convent of the Order of the Clarisse Order, which was founded by St. Clara of Assisi and had special patronage of Rome. The strict rules of the order influenced the architecture of the monastery: all the buildings were made in a strict classical style, without unnecessary decorations.

After the Thirty Years' War of the XVII century, when the nuns had to hide behind the fortress walls of the city, a large-scale reconstruction of the Söflingen monastery began. In 1648, a two-storey church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary was erected in the Baroque style - the only building of the monastery that has survived to this day. The appearance of the church appears in its original form, only the main altar has been preserved from the interior decoration of those years.