Kloster Hornbach
The guests are able to relax in rooms furnished in the most varied styles: Afro-Asian, Mediterranean based on the Mediterranean monasteries, as well as “Pure Style” originating from the Shaker religious community.
The monastery bar with beer garden offers regional cuisine and the Refugium light, mediterranean cuisine out of first class products. In the monks former Abbots Chapel a registry office is available for weddings.
The present day Hornbach Monastery was established in 742 by St. Pirminius as a Benedictine monastery. The gentle hill landscape of the southwest Palatinate corresponded with the monks´ ideal place of sanctuary for self-reflection.
In the centuries to follow the monastery experienced a moving history: from the blossoming of a small monastery to its nearly complete dereliction. After several years of restoration and renovation, the former monastery ruin was ready to be opened as a hotel in May 2000.
Traces of the past can be discovered in the Historama Museum as well as in the herb garden of the founding Father of Botany, Hieronymus Bock, who lived in Hornbach in the 16th century as a teacher and preacher.
