page_title: Salem, Baden-Württemberg
section_title: Culture and sights
hierarchical_section_title: Salem, Baden-Württemberg / Culture and sights
caption_attribution_description: Reichsabtei Salem
context_page_description: Salem is a municipality in the Bodensee district of Baden-Württemberg in Southern Germany, located 9 km north of Lake Constance, with a population of 11,100.
context_section_description: The Cistercian monastery of Salem Abbey was founded in 1134 when the knight Guntram von Adelsreute donated land for its establishment. The abbey already had its own scriptorium in the 12th century and formed one of the most important monastery libraries in Europe.
  Currently the grounds are home to the middle school campus of the boarding school Schule Schloss Salem, founded in 1920 by Kurt Hahn and Prince Max of Baden. The abbey complex covers a total of 17 hectares. 
  Other sights are the Gothic style Salem Minster (the former church of the abbey complex) and the Baroque chapel.
caption: Abbey Salem
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