Kloster Stolpe
Monastery in Stolpe an der Peene, Germany, dating from 1101
Stolpe Abbey (German: Kloster Stolpe; founded 1153, dissolved 1534) was the first monastery in Pomerania. It was located on the southern bank of the Peene River between Gützkow and Anklam near the village of Stolpe an der Peene. Ratibor I, Duke of Pomerania, founded the abbey on 3 May 1153 in memory of his brother Wartislaw I. Wartislaw, who had subdued the area and converted its people to Christianity in the late 1120s, was killed near the site of the future monastery; according to legend he was murdered by a Liutician pagan. The abbey was settled by Benedictine monks from Berge Abbey near Ma
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- Type:
- Monastery
- Period:
- 1101
- Where:
- Stolpe an der Peene, Germany
- Coordinates:
- 53.87°N, 13.56°E
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