Schwäbisch Hall is in the Hohenlohe region, which is extremely rural. However, there seem to be more than a normal concentration of Baroque churches, which is great because it's my favourite style - so excessive, you can see why the farmers rebelled against the monasteries and destroyed many of them. We did a bus tour of the Hohenlohe, and one of the stops was a Cistercian monastery, in a small town called Schöntal. Perpetual poverty was clearly not one of the goals of the order - I had assumed that monks all lived in fairly subdued surroundings to focus on spiritual matters. Apparently I was wrong.
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| Chapter Hall, note amount of gilding |
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| Monastery Church |
The church itself is committed to the Baroque style - you could see Barbie living there.
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| Gold + pink marble: a winning combination |
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| Creepy little faces carved into the gilded [of course!] grate |
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