Waldsassen

Waldsassen was an imperial Cistercian abbey whose Stiftland included Tirschenreuth. In 1337 its abbot ruled the monastery's lands as a prince of the empire.

War and Hussite raids weakened Waldsassen; it burned in the Bavarian War of 1504 and suffered again in the Peasants' War of 1525. The Palatinate took its imperial rights in 1543 and expelled the monks. The Cistercians returned in 1669, but the abbey never regained those rights; Bavaria dissolved it in 1803.