The buildings date from the Romanesque, Gothic and Baroque periods.
A list of goods, the Oculus Memoriae, survives from as early as the year 1211, giving information on the possessions and premises of the abbey complex.

The buildings include:
The abbey church, a three-aisled Romanesque basilica with transept, containing the tombs of some of the Archbishops of Mainz
The cloisters, the south side of which is Gothic, the north side partly Gothic and partly Romanesque, and the remainder a 19th-century restoration
The chapter room, a late Gothic square room with a central pillar, restored with ceiling and wall paintings
The Fraternei, an early Gothic room with heavy vaulting, used since the Middle Ages as a wine cellar.
It is also known as the Cabinetkeller, which is the origin of the use of the term Kabinett as a quality description of German wine.

The Dormitorium (dormitory), an early Gothic room about 70 metres long containing vaulting and short columns with sculptured capitals, and one of the few such rooms of this size and quality remaining in Europe
The north wing, refurbished in the 18th century and containing the refectory, with a Baroque stucco ceiling by Daniel Schenk.
It replaced the earlier Gothic refectory to the north
The west wing, accommodating the library, where the abbey museum was set up in 1995.
This contains inter alia the oldest surviving Cistercian glass window in Germany (of about 1180), the original capitals from the cloisters, now replaced by modern replicas, various sculptures, portraits of Bernard of Clairvaux and Baroque furnishings
In a separate building to the west of the monastic quarters, the "converts' building" or "lay-brothers' building", containing the lay-brothers' refectory (45 metres long) and the Laiendormitorium (lay-brothers' dormitory) (at over 80 metres long, the largest surviving Romanesque secular room in Europe), and attached to it a Romanesque wine-cellar and various small domestic buildings from the 17th century
Outside of the inner monastic precinct to the east, the hospital, service buildings and 18th and 19th century wine cellars
The buildings date from the Romanesque, Gothic and Baroque periods. A list of goods, the Oculus Memoriae, survives from as early as the year 1211, giving information on the possessions and premises of the abbey complex.
The buildings include:
The abbey church, a three-aisled Romanesque basilica with transept, containing the tombs of some of the Archbishops of Mainz
The cloisters, the south side of which is Gothic, the north side partly Gothic and partly Romanesque, and the remainder a 19th-century restoration
The chapter room, a late Gothic square room with a central pillar, restored with ceiling and wall paintings
The Fraternei, an early Gothic room with heavy vaulting, used since the Middle Ages as a wine cellar. It is also known as the Cabinetkeller, which is the origin of the use of the term Kabinett as a quality description of German wine.
The Dormitorium (dormitory), an early Gothic room about 70 metres long containing vaulting and short columns with sculptured capitals, and one of the few such rooms of this size and quality remaining in Europe
The north wing, refurbished in the 18th century and containing the refectory, with a Baroque stucco ceiling by Daniel Schenk. It replaced the earlier Gothic refectory to the north
The west wing, accommodating the library, where the abbey museum was set up in 1995. This contains inter alia the oldest surviving Cistercian glass window in Germany (of about 1180), the original capitals from the cloisters, now replaced by modern replicas, various sculptures, portraits of Bernard of Clairvaux and Baroque furnishings
In a separate building to the west of the monastic quarters, the "converts' building" or "lay-brothers' building", containing the lay-brothers' refectory (45 metres long) and the Laiendormitorium (lay-brothers' dormitory) (at over 80 metres long, the largest surviving Romanesque secular room in Europe), and attached to it a Romanesque wine-cellar and various small domestic buildings from the 17th century
Outside of the inner monastic precinct to the east, the hospital, service buildings and 18th and 19th century wine cellars
Eberbach Abbey