This convent was founded by Abbot Raphold of S. Stephan and Bishop Sie(g)fried circa 1147 upon the dissolution of a hospital and poorhouse near the cloister of S. Stephan. The convent was established with the goods from the dissolved hospital. The women followed the Benedictine rule. Abbots Konrad and Benedict of S. Stephan and Bishop Lorenz acted as the spiritual supervisors for the community (Link, 625-6).
Notable abbesses were: Walburg of Wichsenstein, the first abbess, 1147; Mechthilde; Anna von Rndersacker; Caecilie of Tholbe; Bathilde; Caecilie of Grumbach, 1474; Anna of Ebnet, 1428; and Margareta, who supported the Protestant Reformation.
According to Link, in the Middle Ages this convent was one of the richest foundations in Bavaria.
The convent was secularized in 1803, and in 1805 Prince Wertheim Rosenberg purchased the cloister buildings.
Afra, martyr (304) - formerly a prostitute, converted to Christianity;
burned at the stake in Augsburg (although she had been converted by st
Narcissus, bishop of Gerona in Spain)during Diocletian's persecutions. Link provides the names for several other abbesses from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries which have not been included in the present record.