The community was founded in 1235 and reformed in 1465 by Dominican nuns from Nürnberg. Count Konrad von Wasserburg and his wife, Kunigunde, are credited as the founders of the community. The initial rule and order is uncertain.
The library catalogue of S. Katharinenkloster , listing book donations to Altenhohenau, shows that the nuns here participated in the late firteenth-century book traffic.
The medieval buildings no longer exist, although a new community of dominican nuns still inhabit the location.
The Staatsbibliothek Preußicher Kulturbesitz holds a manuscript of saints' lives, Germ.2o658. The Landesbibliothek in Karlsruhe holds two Diurales, St. Peter perg. 36a and 60. Six choirbooks from the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries are held in the Erzbischöfliche Ordinariatsbibliothek in Munich. The Hauptstaatsarchiv preserves a copy of the convent's land rights (?) in its Staatsverwaltung 1947. The Staatsbibliothek in Munich also preserve books from the convent: Cgm 244, 432, 512, 516?, 518, 697, 806, 1521, 2926, 4274, 5243, 5244, 5516, Clm 2901-2918, 2919, 2931, 2932, 23113, 23155, 23158, 23164, 23287, 23314, 23315, 23318, and 28268(?). Three Psalters are held in the museum in Wasserburg as well.
By Women, For Women, About Women: The Sister-Books of Fourteenth Century Germany.Handschriftenerbe des Deutschen Mittelalters, vol. 1, p. 11.
SINNEGEN, P. Ansgar, Katholische Frauengenossenschaften Deutschlands, 64.
In 1923 the community was revitalized by German Dominicans from California, USA.
Several works from the convent's library remain. The Staatsbibliothek Preußicher Kulturbesitz holds a manuscript of saints' lives from the convent, dating from the fifteenth century. Two diurnales, dating from 1495 and 1501 are held in the Landesbibliothk in Karlsruhe. Six choirbooks from the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries are held in the Erzbischöfliche Ordinariatsbibliothek in Munich. The Hauptstaatsarchiv and Staatsbibliothek in Munich also preserve books from the convent. Three Psalters are held in the museum in Wasserburg as well.
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2]Hist. Staetten, 10.
