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Barsinghausen Monastery

Barsinghausen Monastery

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Barsinghausen Monastery

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Location: Barsinghausen, Region Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

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1. Old Baptismal Font – Fuchsbach Forest Path loop from Barsinghausen

15.9km

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2. Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Stone – Deister Trout Pond loop from Barsinghausen

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3. Barsinghausen Monastery – Ziegenteich loop from Barsinghausen

8.66km

02:21

120m

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Marius

March 9, 2023

The Barsinghausen monastery, first mentioned in a document in 1193, is considered to be the oldest women's monastery in the former principality of Calenberg. Already in 1543 the monastery was reformed and attached to the monastery chamber of Hanover. During the Thirty Years' War, the Sankt Marien monastery church suffered considerable damage. Today's parish church of the Evangelical-Lutheran Mariengemeinde was rebuilt in the years 1700 to 1704 and received its current form. The monastery buildings south of the church were built in the same period. Barsinghausen Monastery is a historically and culturally significant site in the region. The evangelical women's monastery attracts numerous visitors every year who want to get to know the history and community of the monastery.

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LindenLaune

July 3, 2021

Barsinghausen Monastery is a Protestant women's monastery. It is one of the five Calenberg monasteries administered by the Hannover Monastery Chamber. It was first mentioned in a document in 1193. The monastery was founded by Count Wedekind von Schwalenberg a few years earlier as a double monastery (Augustinian canons and Augustinian choir women), but from 1229 the chronicle only lists nuns. It is the oldest of the five women's convents located in the former Principality of Calenberg. In 1543 the Reformation was introduced in the monastery and the monastery was transferred to the Hanover monastery chamber. Since then, the monastery church of St. Mary has also been the parish church of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mary. Since 1996 the sisters of the Evangelical Community of Barsinghausen Abbey have continued the monastic rhythm of “pray and work” (ora et labora). The community is part of the Diakonischen Schwesternschaft Wolmirstedt e.V., which was founded in 1954 near Magdeburg. The life of the sisters in the monastery is based on the three evangelical counsels: community of property, celibacy and obedience.

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Moonbeam🌜

April 5, 2022

Since 2013 she has formed the convent with newly arrived conventuals. The center and source of strength of life in the convent are prayer and the celebration of Holy Communion. The course of the day is determined by the rhythm of the daytime prayers. The convention welcomes individual guests who long for silence and prayer to gain strength for their everyday life, who want to reorient themselves or who are looking for answers to life questions and needs. Since 2014, the monastery has housed the state church institution inspiratio. This gives pastors and church employees the opportunity to take a supervised break. The facility is run by a team that also includes conventuals from the convent.
Source: kirchenkreis-ronnenberg.de/angebote/kloster/barsinghausen/kloster

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Barsinghausen Monastery

1. Old Baptismal Font – Fuchsbach Forest Path loop from Barsinghausen

2. Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Stone – Deister Trout Pond loop from Barsinghausen

3. Barsinghausen Monastery – Ziegenteich loop from Barsinghausen

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