Kanonissenstift Gernrode

Monastery in Quedlinburg, Germany

Gernrode Abbey (German: Stift Gernrode) was a house of secular canonesses (Frauenstift) in Gernrode in what is now Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Gernrode was founded in 959 and was disestablished in the seventeenth century. In the Middle Ages the abbey was an Imperial abbey, which had the status of imperial immediacy (German: Reichunmittelbarkeit), and an Imperial State. In the early modern period, the abbey was part of the Upper Saxon Circle.

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Type:
Monastery

Where:
Quedlinburg, Germany

Coordinates:
51.72°N, 11.14°E

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