This convent is described in the Life of Willibald and Wunnibald. The community was a joint venture between Wunnibald (Wynnebald) and Walburga (Walpurga), brother and sister of the bishop Winnebald. When Wunnibald died, Walburga continued on her own. It was founded circa 745-751 as a double house, but by 790 it had become a community of male canons. From 790-1155 it functioned as a community of male canons; in 1155 it resumed as a Benedictine double house. The community was finally dissolved in 1537.
Willibald's sister, Walburga was the first abbess.
Here the nun, Hugburg, wrote the lives of S. Willibald and Wunnibald.
The "Regierungsbibliothek" in Ansbach contains several Miscellaneous works dating from the fifteenth century, which belonged to this house, #Lat. 36-45. The University library in Freiburg in Breisgau contains a manuscript from the house, dating to the fifteenth century, #392a. The Staatsbibliothek in Munich also contains a manuscript from the house, #Cgm 1524. The Selden supra 27 (SC 3415) in the Bodlein Library in Oxford, which dates from the eleventh century, may have belonged to this house.
Hugeburc von Heidenheim: philologische Untersuchungen zu den Heiligenbiographien einer Nonne des des achten Jahrhunderts
Geschichte der Benediktinnerinnen
Kirchengeschichte Deutschlands
Sisters In Arms: Catholic Nuns Through Two Millennia
Handschriftenerbe des Deutschen Mittelalters, vol. 1, p. 325-326.
St. Walburga: Medieval Nun, Free Woman
Schriftum zum Leben und zur Verehrung der Heiligen Walburga
Wer ist die Nonne von Heidenheim
Vita Wynnebaldi Abbatis Heidenheimensis
The corpse of Abbess Walburgis of Heidenheim was moved to the bishopric of Eichstätt; part of the reliquiry came later to Monheim.
McNamara,161/ more research necessary
