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MonasteryHannover-Marienwerder
Marienwerder Abbey
In the northwest of Hanover, the Marienwerder Monastery is an Augustinian nunnery. Its Romanesque monastery church is considered the oldest church in the city. It is situated in the transitional zone between the geest and loess landscape of the Calenberg region, surrounded by a terraced and floodplain landscape near the Leine River, including forested sand dunes.
History+
The monastery was founded in 1196 by Count Konrad I of Roden as Monasterium Sanktae Mariae in Werdere on a former river island in the Leine. Legend has it that a miraculously washed-up statue of Mary inspired its foundation. The consecration took place in 1200 by Bishop Themar of Minden, initially as an Augustinian canonry. In 1216, it was re-consecrated and subsequently inhabited by Augustinian nuns from Obernkirchen. In 1250, the monastery church became a parish church when the community of Garbsen was merged with Marienwerder. The monastery acquired extensive possessions, including lands as well as fishing and milling rights.
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