List of Christian monasteries in Germany explained

This is a list of Christian religious houses in Germany, both extant and dissolved, and for either men or women (or both), arranged by state.

Christian monasteries (religious houses) in Germany arranged by state

Baden-Württemberg

• Beuron Archabbey
• See also: Campus Galli - a project to construct a faithful medieval town with a monastery, based on the Plan of Saint Gall; in Meßkirch, Baden-Württemberg

Bavaria

• Beuerberg Abbey (Kloster Beuerberg), formerly a monastery of the Augustinian Canons, is now the Monastery of the Visitation, Beuerberg, in Eurasburg.
• Fürstenzell Abbey
• Münsterschwarzach Abbey

Berlin

• see Brandenburg

Brandenburg

• see List of Christian monasteries in Brandenburg. This list also includes Berlin.

Bremen

• see Lower Saxony

Hamburg

• see Schleswig-Holstein

Hesse

• Eberbach Abbey, Eltville
• Eibingen Abbey, Rüdesheim
• Kloster Gnadenthal, Hünfelden
• see List of Christian monasteries in Hesse

Lower Saxony

• see List of Christian monasteries in Lower Saxony. This list also includes Bremen.

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

• see List of Christian monasteries in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

North Rhine-Westphalia

• see List of Christian monasteries in North Rhine-Westphalia

Rhineland-Palatinate

• see List of Christian monasteries in Rhineland-Palatinate. This list also includes Saarland.

Saarland

• see Rhineland-Palatinate

Saxony

• see List of Christian monasteries in Saxony

Saxony-Anhalt

• see List of Christian monasteries in Saxony-Anhalt

Schleswig-Holstein

• see List of Christian monasteries in Schleswig-Holstein. This list also includes Hamburg.

Thuringia

• see List of Christian monasteries in Thuringia

See also

• List of Carolingian monasteries
• List of Imperial abbeys
• Monasteries in the Archbishopric of Bremen

Sources

• Sterba, Thomas, 2010: Herders Neues Klösterlexikon. Herder-Verlag.

External links

• Orden.de: information on extant religious houses in Germany