Stift Fischbeck

Name: Stift Fischbeck
Address: DE

Monastery in Hessisch Oldendorf, Germany, dating from 0901

Fischbeck Abbey (German: Stift Fischbeck) is an Evangelical-Lutheran convent for canonesses in Fischbeck near Hessisch Oldendorf, Lower Saxony, Germany. It was founded in 955 by the noblewoman Helmburgis, a relation of the powerful family of the Ecbertiner, on land that had been given to her for the purpose by King Otto I, and is still a house of canonesses today, although now Lutheran women's convent rather than a Roman Catholic monastery. Despite later repairs and refurbishments, the cloisters and the church, built mostly in the 12th and 13th centuries, are still basically Romanesque. In the

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Type:: Monastery
Period:: 0901
Where:: Hessisch Oldendorf, Germany
Coordinates:: 52.14°N, 9.30°E

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