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Obernkirchen Abbey

Obernkirchen Abbey

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Obernkirchen Abbey

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Location: Obernkirchen, Landkreis Schaumburg, Lower Saxony, Germany

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1. Obernkirchen Abbey – Obernkirchen City Library loop from Obernkirchen

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02:12

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2. Obernkirchen City Library – Obernkirchen Abbey loop from Obernkirchen

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3. Obernkirchen Abbey – Spiegeleierweg Trail loop from Obernkirchen

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170m

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Angelina Kuhlmann

April 11, 2021

One of the most impressive and historical stations of the Sigwardsweg. Various women's communities have lived in the monastery since the 17th century - and this is still the case today. A group of single women looks after the monastery as a living and working community based on the Christian faith. More information is available on their website: stift-obernkirchen.de.

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Danny & Kalle

March 7, 2018

The Protestant women's monastery in Obernkirchen is a living and working community of single women who look after an important historical and architectural monument; it is one of the oldest in the Schaumburg district of Lower Saxony.
The monastery is a corporation under public law and at the same time a great testimony to the Christian spirit and occidental culture. Its buildings encompass the oldest part of the city of Obernkirchen and are evidence of more than 500 years of building history.

In principle, they are still used today as the former Augustinian choir monastery was determined in the founding year 1167. Its residents gained extensive self-determination and self-administration in the Middle Ages. The ladies of today's Evangelical Lutheran women's monastery, called “the chapter”, live under these principles. This benefits a place full of magic, preserves its charisma and protects it for future generations.

To familiarize these generations with an old and at the same time forward-looking tradition is an important task that the chapter has set itself. That is why school classes are invited to visit the monastery, to be guided through its rooms and to learn about life in the monastery.
Source (stift-obernkirchen.de/anlage.html)
From April 1st to October 31st, guided tours of the monastery take place on Wednesdays and Saturdays at 3:30 p.m., for groups on other days and times after prior registration.

The registered association “Treff im Stift” e.V. has been using the monastery ballroom for its lecture events for many years - see
treff-im-stift-obernkirchen.de
(As of 2018)

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Moonbeam🌜

May 11, 2022

According to a Minden chronicle, Obernkirchen Abbey was founded by Ludwig the Pious (814-840) as the oldest spiritual settlement between the Weser and Leine. In 936 Hungarians are said to have attacked the monastery and burned it down, but this is not documented. The first documentary evidence of the monastery dates back to 1167. The Augustinian monastery was founded by Bishop Werner von Minden in place of the older monastery and received local rule over Obernkirchen.

In 1559, the Reformation was introduced by a decree from Count Otto IV in the County of Schaumburg. The nuns of the Obernkirchen monastery opposed the Reformation.[1] However, they had to submit to the authority of the count. The monastery was deprived of its sovereign rights in 1560, but not abolished. In 1565 it was converted into an aristocratic evangelical convent intended primarily for daughters of the Schaumburg nobility. After the county of Schaumburg was divided, the monastery and the town came to the landgraves of Hesse-Kassel in 1647. The monastery was dissolved in 1810, but re-established in 1814 and assigned to the Hanover monastery chamber.

In 1962, the abbess took over the place of the abbess clerk as the statutory head in addition to the spiritual leadership and the legal representation of the monastery. Canonesses no longer had to be noble.
Source: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stift_Obernkirchen

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Obernkirchen Abbey

1. Obernkirchen Abbey – Obernkirchen City Library loop from Obernkirchen

2. Obernkirchen City Library – Obernkirchen Abbey loop from Obernkirchen

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