Places of historical interest – Schwarzach cathedral

Every traveller along Federal Highway 36, which crosses Rheinmünster between Rastatt and Strasbourg, can catch a glimpse of the abbey cathedral nestling on the banks of the Rhine. This magnificent colonnaded basilica is almost all that remains of the former Benedictine abbey of Schwarzach, which in the course of its colourful and tragic history between 1714 and1803 was the driving force behind the extraordinary religious, cultural and economic prosperity of the central Rhine area.