From monastery to orphanage

The use and conversion of the “Monastery of Adelheid” in the Freiburg suburb of Günterstal shows what different purposes a huge building complex built in the Baroque era could serve.

At the beginning of the 13th century, in addition to countless men’s monasteries, many women’s monasteries were also built in southern Germany. This is also the case in Günterstal, today a suburb of Freiburg. It

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