 The community's estates lay principally in the Münstertal, the Breisgau, the Ortenau and in Alsace.It also acquired the lordship of Tunsel and the parishes of Münstertal, Grunern, Krozingen, Tunsel, Laufen, Biengen and others.The abbey was also able to capitalise on the silver-mining industry that developed in the region in the later Middle Ages, on the basis of which the small town of "Münster" grew up below the abbey.