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Historical Archive: Kloster Wienhausen
interior access courtesy of Abbess Renate von Randow

founded around 1230 by Agnes von Landsberg
founding charter April 21, 1233, from Bishop Conrad II of Hildesheim
originally a Cistercian convent, not in official hierarchy
reformed 1469, from 1531 a Lutheran convent
currently a Christian community of self-supporting women


Exterior


Interior except nuns' choir


Nuns' Choir


Church


Museum


convent land and hotel



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exterior
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nuns' choir

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plan, after Otto Sarrazin and Oskar Hossfeld, ed., Die Denkmalpflege, year 4 no. 14 (Nov. 5, 1902, Berlin), updated

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Tristan embroidery, c.1300-25