Hotel with nobody visible -- one (very nice) room-girl for 3 floors -- & an awful bell to call folks to supper.
Allerheiligen, which is reached viá Achern is one of the most interesting objects for an excursion near Baden. Carriage there and back from the Krone or Adler at Achern the 7-- 8 fl; or to the Neuhaus only 4 1/2 fl. Travellers who desire to return from Allerheiligen to Achern (2 hrs drive by another route) should rejoin their conveyance at the foot of the waterfall, drive in 1 1/4 hr to Oppenau, then down the Renchthal in 2 hrs to Lautenbach and Oberkirch thence to stat. Appenweier or Renchen. Carr. from Achern for the whole excursion 8 -- 10 fl. Carr. from Allerheiligen.
Bædeker's Rhine - 1873: Route 34 page 200
According to the tradition, the foundation date was 1192, and the site of the building, at 620 metres above sea level in the upper valley of the Lierbach near Oppenau, was determined by a donkey which threw off a sack of money at this remote and inaccessible spot. In the same year a wooden chapel was built, which was gradually extended to be a Premonstratensian monastery.