Zisterzienserinnenkloster Himmelkron

Name: Zisterzienserinnenkloster Himmelkron
Address: DE

Monastery in Himmelkron, Germany, dating from 1279

Himmelkron Abbey (German: Kloster Himmelkron) is located in Himmelkron in the district of Kulmbach in Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany. From the 13th to the 16th century it was a Cistercian abbey in the Archdiocese of Bamberg. It then served the Margraviate of Brandenburg-Bayreuth as a summer residence and Jagdschloss until the 19th century. Today it is a residential home and day care center for people with intellectual disabilities. The originally Gothic abbey church was baroqueized in the 17th and 18th centuries. Today the collegiate church of St. Mary is an evangelical lutheran parish chur

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Type:: Monastery
Period:: 1279
Where:: Himmelkron, Germany
Coordinates:: 50.06°N, 11.59°E

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