Barth Abbey was originally a castle built around 1573 by Bogislaw XIII. After his departure, the castle was neglected, damage ...
Gandersheim Abbey (Stift Gandersheim) was a secular canonesses’ foundation in Bad Gandersheim, Lower Saxony, founded in 852 ...
According to legend, the founder of Polling Abbey was Duke Tassilo III of Bavaria in about 750, but it seems more likely that ...
Rehna Abbey is a former Benedictine (the 13th century) and Premonstratensian nunnery (until 1552). It was founded between 123 ...
Lichtenthal Abbey is a Cistercian nunnery founded in 1245 by Irmengard bei Rhein, widow of Margrave Hermann V of Baden. Her b ...
Engelberg Abbey is a Franciscan monastery located on the hill above the town of Grossheubach. The hill spur on which the abbe ...
A small monastery was founded in Altomünster by Saint Alto, a wandering monk, in about 750. The vita of Alto, likely wri ...
Cismar Abbey was a Benedictine monastery founded in 1238 by Count Adolf IV of Holstein as alternative accommodation for Bened ...
Waldsassen Abbey was founded by Gerwich of Wolmundstein, a Benedictine monk of Sigeberg Abbey, with the permission of his for ...
Aldersbach Abbey was founded in 1127 by Saint Otto, Bishop of Bamberg, as a community of Augustinian Canons. It is located on ...
Metten Abbey, or St. Michael's Abbey, was founded in 766 by Gamelbert of Michaelsbuch. For many centuries Metten was under th ...
Tückelhausen Charterhouse is a former Carthusian monastery dedicated to Saints Lambert, John the Baptist and George. It was ...
Opposite Bremm on a peninsula is the former Stuben Monastery with its impressive church ruins. The complex was founded at the ...
Malchow Abbey is a former Cistercian nunnery founded in 1298, when the nuns from Röbel settled in Alt-Malchow and took o ...
Elchingen Abbey was a Benedictine monastery in Oberelchingen. For much of its history, Elchingen was one of the 40-odd self-r ...
Dobrilugk Abbey was a Cistercian monastery founded in 1165 in what is now Doberlug-Kirchhain, Brandenburg. Settlement began i ...
Niederaltaich Abbey was founded in 731 or possibly 741 by Duke Odilo of Bavaria. The monastery, dedicated to Saint Maurice, w ...
Stolpe Abbey was the first monastery in Pomerania. Ratibor I, Duke of Pomerania, founded the abbey on 3 May 1153 in memory of ...
Ellwangen Abbey was the earliest Benedictine monastery established in the Duchy of Swabia. According to the monastery chronic ...
St. Ottilien Archabbey is a Benedictine monastery in Emming near Eresing and the Ammersee. It is the mother house of the St. ...