Roggenburg Abbey, Premonstratensian monastery in Roggenburg, Germany

Roggenburg Abbey is a Premonstratensian monastery in Roggenburg, Bavaria, whose Baroque church is crowned by two towers visible from a distance. The complex brings together several buildings arranged around courtyards, along with gardens, a museum, a shop, and a restaurant.

The monastery was founded in the 12th century and grew into a religious center in the region over the following centuries. It was dissolved during the early modern period but later restored and today functions again as a working monastic community.

The Baroque church is still open for services and organ concerts, giving visitors a chance to hear the large pipe organ in action. The Premonstratensian community living here shapes the daily rhythm of the place, which sets it apart from most monastery visits.

The abbey church of Mariä Himmelfahrt is integrated into the convent buildings and has no entrance facade on its long axis, so visitors enter from the side. The complex sits on a grassy slope above Roggenburg, and the church is still the parish church, so visits may overlap with services. The monastery shop sells devotional items, its own wine and products made on site.

The abbey church's ceiling frescoes by Franz Martin Kuen, considered his main work, were largely lost when the ceiling collapsed in 1845; Waldemar Kolmsperger painted new ones in 1900. The central ceiling painting shows the Nativity, recalling the Premonstratensian order's founding at Christmas 1121.