Prämonstratenserstift Kloster Veßra
Church in Kloster Veßra, Germany, dating from 1101
Vessra Abbey (German: Kloster Veßra) was a Premonstratensian monastery in the village also named Kloster Veßra in the district of Hildburghausen, Thuringia, Germany. The monastery was founded in the 1130s by Gotebold II, Count of Henneberg, and his wife Liutgard on a site near the confluence of the Schleuse and the Werra. The church was dedicated in 1138; the foundation received papal confirmation three years later. For the whole of its existence of more than four hundred years the abbey was the house monastery of the Hennebergs. It also had a close association with the von Bibra family, parti
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- Type:
- Church
- Period:
- 1101
- Where:
- Kloster Veßra, Germany
- Coordinates:
- 50.49°N, 10.64°E
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