Former abbey of Saint Benedict in Bursfelde in Lower Saxony, Germany
Bursfelde Abbey
Bursfelde Abbey in 2010 showing the church
Monastery information
Order
Benedictine
Established
1093
Disestablished
1579
Mother house
Corvey Abbey
People
Founder(s)
Heinrich of Northeim
Site
Location
Bursfelde, Lower Saxony, Germany
Visible remains
only the church, new towers were built in the 19th century
Public access
yes
Bursfelde Abbey (in German Kloster Bursfelde) is a former Benedictine monastery located in Bursfelde, a hamlet which for administrative purposes is included in the municipality of nearby Hannoversch Münden in Lower Saxony, Germany. Today the abbey church and its estate cover a site of approximately 300 hectares which is administered by the Klosterkammer Hannover, a body that operates under the auspices of the Lower Saxony Ministry for Arts and the Sciences [de] to look after reassigned or disused ecclesiastical buildings and other heritage properties in the region. The legal owner of the Bursfelde Monastery Complex ("Zentrums Kloster Bursfelde") is the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Hanover.[1][2][3]
^"Das Geistliche Zentrum Kloster Bursfelde..." Geistliches Zentrum Kloster Bursfelde, Hannoversch Münden. Archived from the original on 19 April 2012. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
^"Geschichte der Klosterkirche". Evangelische Medienarbeit, Hannover. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
^"Geistliches Zentrum Kloster Bursfelde". Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
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the abbey, and the first monks came from the Imperial Abbey of Corvey on the Weser. In 1433 Abbot Johann Dederoth also became abbot of BursfeldeAbbey and...
of BursfeldeAbbey and became part of the Bursfelde Congregation. Wolfram's successor, Bernhard, carried on the work of revival, freed the abbey from...
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influence of the reforming Bursfelde Congregation, which the abbey joined, supported against a certain resistance within the abbey by Abbot Johannes V von...
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possessions of the abbey among themselves. After a complete reform, instituted in 1477, by Abbot Adam von Eschweiler of the Bursfelde Congregation, Werden...
Beyer von Boppard, who came from Marienberg Abbey (near Boppard), introduced the statutes of the Bursfelde Congregation. It had extensive endowments in...
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study. However, some convents (such as Ebstorf Abbey near the town of Uelzen and BursfeldeAbbey in Bursfelde) adopted the Lutheran faith. Many of these convents...
study. However, some convents (such as Ebstorf Abbey near the town of Uelzen and BursfeldeAbbey in Bursfelde) adopted the Lutheran faith. Many of these convents...
Constance (1414–1418), set out to reform the abbey and joined it to the newly formed Congregation of Bursfelde, a union of Benedictine monasteries, both...
than 1,500 hectares of forest in the Nordhausen district of Thuringia BursfeldeAbbey Marienburg castle (Pattensen) (takeover was planned for 2019) Georg...
Alpirsbach and began a series of construction projects, but also joined the Bursfelde Congregation, a coalition of reformist Benedictine monasteries. In 1522...
the end of the 15th century the abbey joined the Bursfelde Congregation. In 1794 during the French Revolution the abbey was plundered and burnt down, and...
Würzburg seems to have acquired some authority here. In 1469 the abbey joined the Bursfelde Congregation, but suffered repeated disasters in the 16th century...
mid-15th century it was one of the six original members of the influential Bursfelde Congregation, a Benedictine reform movement. After three prosperous centuries...
the 14th century, the wealthy abbey nevertheless recovered. However, in 1465 the abbey joined the reformist Bursfelde Congregation, which succeeded in...
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