Monastery Sulz

The women's collegiate church was established around the end of the 12th century, likely by the Lords of Wahrberg, and was assigned to the Premonstratensian Circary of Ilfeld. Spiritual guidance was provided by the abbot of Zell near Würzburg. A fire in 1260 destroyed the entire complex and its archives, leaving little information about the convent's early decades. The Burgraves of Nuremberg, and later the Margraves of Brandenburg-Ansbach, served as protectors. The collegiate church, which primarily housed noble canonesses, was spiritually led by a canon from Oberzell, who often also held the office of provost. The head of the convent, known as the "Mistress of Sulz," managed the institution and exercised disciplinary authority. The Gothic Church of St. Mary was rebuilt in the early 14th century. After two fires, the last around 1500, the church was restored by 1504. During the Peasants' War in 1525, the monastery suffered severe destruction and looting, leading to the flight of most of the canonesses. The Reformation led to secularization by the Margrave of Ansbach in 1531, and with the death of the last canoness in 1556, the convent ceased to exist. The collegiate property had already been earmarked in 1539 to finance a planned university in Feuchtwangen.

Kloster Sulz is located in Ansbach, a city in the Middle Franconia region of Bavaria, Germany. The village of Kloster Sulz is part of the Dombühl municipality.

The two-story convent building, located south of the church, served as a margravial hunting lodge after secularization and later, from 1802, as a school with a teacher's residence. It has undergone significant alterations through renovations over time. Today, only two pointed arch doorways from the 14th century remain as evidence of the original collegiate complex. The former collegiate church was restored in 1573 as an evangelical parish church. A wooden epitaph from around 1520 commemorates the Premonstratensian nuns. The "Conventhaus" was converted into a kindergarten in 1976.

• Kloster Schillingsfürst (sacred building, approx. 4529 m away)
• Schloss Schillingsfürst (castle, approx. 4930 m away)
• Schloss Wahrberg (castle, approx. 7662 m away)
• Schloss Aurach (castle, approx. 7879 m away)