Kloster Reute, Franciscan monastery in Reute, Germany

Kloster Reute is a Franciscan monastery in Germany featuring stone buildings arranged around a central courtyard. The complex includes chapels, living quarters for the sisters and guests, and gardens that define the grounds.

Five women founded the Franciscan convent at Reute in 1403, among them Elisabeth Achler (1386–1420), later called "Gute Beth". Joseph II dissolved it by force in 1784/86 and gave it to the princes of Waldburg-Waldsee. In 1869 five sisters from Ehingen an der Donau bought the buildings and revived the convent, which has been the mother house of the Franciscan Sisters of Reute since 1871. Swedish troops burned the convent in 1634 before the battle of Nördlingen.

Franciscan sisters live here and gather daily for prayers, maintaining a spiritual community that welcomes visitors to observe their way of life. You can sense this active tradition in the chapel spaces and throughout the grounds.

The monastery grounds on the Klosterberg include the Gute-Beth fountain, the St. Francis chapel, a Stations of the Cross path in the park and the monastery cemetery. The parish and pilgrimage church of St. Peter and Paul was made barrier-free during its 2016/2017 renovation, and the mother house is being converted up to 2027, so parts of the site may be affected by building work.

Sister Ludgera Haberstroh, a member of the convent, works as a mosaicist and stained-glass artist. In the convent grounds visitors can also see the fountain of the Good Beth, the St. Francis chapel, a Stations of the Cross path in the park and the convent cemetery.