 After the Thirty Years' War (1618–48) the lords of Schönburg built a Baroque castle ("Schloss Wechselburg") on the foundations of the ruined abbey, which remained in the same family until their dispossession in 1945.After the end of World War II the abbey church became the parish church and also a place of pilgrimage.In 1993 Benedictine monks from Ettal Abbey re-founded Wechselburg as a priory.