Benediktinerinnen zur Heiligen Maria Abbey (Fulda)

The Benedictine Abbey of St. Mary is a Benedictine monastery founded in 1626 in the city center of Fulda.

The sisters operate various craft workshops, a monastery garden, and a monastery shop, and produce a compost activator.

The monastery church, built between 1629 and 1631 – popularly known as the "Nuns' Church" – was constructed in the forms of late Gothic and Renaissance styles and features a striking west facade designed with large pointed arch windows and a Renaissance gable.

The foundation stone for the construction of the church and monastery of the Benedictine nuns was laid by the Fulda Prince-Abbot Johann Bernhard Schenck zu Schweinsberg (1623–1632).

The first decades were marked by great difficulties due to the Thirty Years' War; the sisters had to flee several times from enemy troops, and the monastery was plundered a few times.

The monastery was able to escape secularization in 1802 by taking over a girls' school. During the Kulturkampf, the sisters went into French exile from 1875 to 1887.

In 1898, the monastery was elevated to an abbey.

In 1942, the expulsion of the sisters was prevented by making part of the buildings available to the Wehrmacht.

After a long phase of rapprochement with the Beuron Congregation, the abbey was finally admitted to the congregation in 1982.