Kloster Wienhausen

Monastery in Wienhausen, Germany

Wienhausen Abbey or Convent (German: Kloster Wienhausen) near Celle in Lower Saxony, Germany, is a convent of Evangelical Lutheran women, which, until the Reformation was a Cistercian Catholic nunnery. The abbey owns significant artworks and artifacts, including a collection of tapestries and the earliest surviving example of a type of eyeglasses.

From Wienhausen Abbey on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.

Type:
Monastery

Where:
Wienhausen, Germany

Coordinates:
52.58°N, 10.19°E

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