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Lüne Abbey
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Lüne Abbey (German: Kloster Lüne) is a former Benedictine nunnery in the Lower Saxon town of Lüneburg. Today it is a Protestant Lutheran convent and is managed by the Klosterkammer Hannover (Hanover Monastic Chamber). The current abbess is Reinhild Freifrau von der Goltz.[1]
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53°15′37″N 10°25′20″E | |
Location | Lüneburg, Lower Saxony |
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Denomination | Lutheran |
Previous denomination | Roman Catholic |
Website | www |
History | |
Status | Convent |
Founded | 1172 |
Founder(s) | Hildeswidis von Marcboldestorpe |
Dedication | Bartholomew the Apostle |
Architecture | |
Functional status | active |
Heritage designation | Baudenkmal of Lower Saxony |
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Abbot | Freifrau Reinhild von der Goltz |
Founded in 1172, the convent soon established itself as a wealthy and autonomous local power in the Lüneburg Heath region. It recruited its nuns mostly from the influential patrician families of Lüneburg and accommodated up to 60 women over most of its existence. These women would be thoroughly educated in Latin, Liberal Arts and in Christian doctrine and liturgy. Over the course of the 15th and 16th centuries, the convent structure changed first through the monastic reform (1481), then through the Protestant Reformation but was never resolved.