In the civil war resulting from the Investiture Controversy in the 11th century, the abbey sustained great losses in holdings to the nobility.
V zgodnjem in visokem srednjem veku je bil samostan močan cesarski samostan, s kmetijskimi gospodarstvi v bližnjem Odenwaldu, na Bergstraße in v Rhenish Hesse, pa tudi v Alzaciji in Loreni.