Zisterzienserkloster Doberan

Name: Zisterzienserkloster Doberan
Address: DE

Monastery in Bad Doberan, Germany, dating from 1171

Doberan Abbey (Kloster Doberan) is a former Cistercian monastery in Bad Doberan, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. The Brick Gothic church continues in use as Doberan Minster (Doberaner Münster). After the conversion to Christianity of the Wendish prince Pribislav, Doberan was the first monastery founded in Mecklenburg, in 1171, as a daughter house of Amelungsborn Abbey. The abbey was refounded at Doberan in 1186 after the original community, at Althof, was killed in 1179 during the upheaval after Pribislaw's death. It quickly became a political, social and spiritual centre in the region. The a

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Type:: Monastery
Period:: 1171
Where:: Bad Doberan, Germany
Coordinates:: 54.11°N, 11.91°E

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