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Regierungsbezirk Kassel

Kassel District

Helmarshausen Abbey

Regierungsbezirk Kassel

Kassel District

Landkreis Kassel

Bad Karlshafen

Helmarshausen Abbey

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Helmarshausen Abbey

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Location: Bad Karlshafen, Landkreis Kassel, Kassel District, Regierungsbezirk Kassel, Hesse, Germany

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1. Baroque meets the Middle Ages near Bad Karlshafen

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2. Bad Karlshafen – Klippensteig to the Weser Skywalk loop from Helmarshausen

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3. Quarry at Carlplatz – Bad Karlshafen loop from Helmarshausen

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Franzl wandert 🥾

October 26, 2021

The remains of the formerly important Helmarshausen monastery are worth seeing. The foundation walls of the monastery church are visible, some outbuildings are standing and the old monastery wall surrounds the site.

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Rainer & Petra

August 25, 2022

Former Benedictine Abbey. At the end of the 10th century, the royal court of Frau Helmburg was owned by Count Eckhard von Reinhausen and his wife Mathilde. The death of their young son prompted the couple to set up a foundation with their property. This is how the Helmwardeshusen Monastery came about from this foundation. Pope Sylvester II and Emperor Otto III gave their approval for the founding of the monastery. on October 8, 997. The first Abbot Haulf was in office from 997 to 1013. The status of a free imperial abbey, which was conferred on the monastery at the same time, was challenged by Paderborn Bishop Meinwerk. His actions with the Holy See in Rome and with the Emperor were finally successful and Helmarshausen Abbey was put under his control.
The achievements of the convent have shaped the image of Helmarshausen Abbey over the centuries of its existence through artistic products that arouse admiration among those who see them. Soon after the beginning of the religious work, the monastery set up a scriptorium as well as a gold and silversmith. Here appropriately trained monks wrote magnificent books and documents and made precious crosses, richly decorated book covers and numerous small bronzes. Secular and ecclesiastical princes took advantage of the monks' skill and commissioned them accordingly.

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Wandertourist

May 21, 2023

Helmarshausen Monastery was consecrated in 1011. A little later, the monastery began to flourish when one of the most famous monks of the Middle Ages created relics, altars and book bindings here. Helmarshausen is still famous for the Gospel of Henry the Lion. In the 13th century, power struggles between the bishoprics led to the decline of the monastery and it was abandoned in 1538. Only a few parts of the monastery remain today. The former church is indicated by stone slabs and information boards. Next to the earlier church there is a newer church with a model of the monastery and an excerpt from the Gospels.

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Location: Bad Karlshafen, Landkreis Kassel, Kassel District, Regierungsbezirk Kassel, Hesse, Germany

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Helmarshausen Abbey

1. Baroque meets the Middle Ages near Bad Karlshafen

2. Bad Karlshafen – Klippensteig to the Weser Skywalk loop from Helmarshausen

3. Quarry at Carlplatz – Bad Karlshafen loop from Helmarshausen

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