Kanonissenstift Essen

Name: Kanonissenstift Essen
Address: DE

Monastery in Essen, Germany, dating from 0801

Essen Abbey (German: Stift Essen) was a community of secular canonesses for women of high nobility that formed the nucleus of modern-day Essen, Germany. A chapter of male priests were also attached to the abbey, under a dean. In the medieval period, the abbess exercised the functions of a bishop, except for the sacramental ones, and those of a ruler, over the very extensive estates of the abbey, and had no clerical superior except the pope.

From Essen Abbey on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.

Type:: Monastery
Period:: 0801
Where:: Essen, Germany
Coordinates:: 51.46°N, 7.01°E

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