It is one of the oldest monasteries in Thuringia and displays essential and rare architectural forms of the High Romanesque period.

Its most important patron, Imperial Count Günther von Käfernburg-Schwarzburg, is revered today as Saint Günther of Thuringia or Bohemia. The monastery of St. Wigbert in Göllingen, near Bad Frankenhausen, can not only look back on over 1000 years of history in royal proximity, but above all on a very eventful one. After secularization, it was used as a state domain and in GDR times as a canning factory. What remains of the former monastery is the striking west tower with its Romanesque crypt. The monastery is run by the Thuringian Palaces and Gardens Foundation and the local support association.