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Rehna Monastery

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Rehna Monastery

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Location: Rehna, Northwest Mecklenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

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1. View of Rehna from Bülow – Rehna Monastery Garden loop from Gadebusch

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2. Monastery Town of Rehna – Rehna Monastery Garden loop from Rehna

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3. Rehna Monastery Garden – Monastery Town of Rehna loop from Gadebusch

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Siegfried LG

August 22, 2018

In the heart of Rehna lies the monastery church, which can be seen from afar, and the well-preserved monastery complex, whose construction began in the 13th century. After monastery Dobbertin Rehna is the largest monastery in Mecklenburg Vorpommern preserved monastery.

After the church was originally built as a Romanesque local church around 1200, the founding deed for the nunnery of St. Mary and St. Elizabeth from 1236. Although the monastery was founded starting from the Premonstratensian monastery Ratzeburg, initially the rule of Saint Benedict applies but before In 1319 the transition to the Premonstratensians takes place. At the foundation, a certain Frater Ernestus, who probably came from Ratezburg, but no mention other than in connection with the foundation of the monastery in Rehna.

The extensive buildings of the monastery give an impression of the importance of the monastery, whose heyday between 1400 and 1500 was reached. Noble families from the surrounding area but also wealthy citizens of Lübeck donated extensive lands to the monastery and often daughters from these families were nuns in the monastery, and sometimes prioresses.

After secularization, parts of the buildings have disintegrated, other parts have been used over the centuries for various uses. Since 1998, the Klosterverein Rehna e.V. has been committed to the preservation and contemporary use of the monastery complex.

Opening hours:
Tuesday - Friday: 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Saturday, Sunday and public holidays: 11.00 - 17.00

Limited opening hours from November to March:
Tuesday - Friday: 10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Sources:
kloster-rehna.com
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kloster_Rehna

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JR56

October 11, 2021

The well-preserved medieval monastery complex of the former Premonstratensian monastery is located in the heart of the town of Rehna, which invites you to take a tour with its half-timbered houses, artesian wells and the Radegasttal.

The former monastery church, the cloister, the guest refectory and the courtroom of the monastery complex are evidence of medieval building culture. The founding document of the nunnery is dated to 1237.

Find out more about a medieval women's monastery community in the Duchy of Mecklenburg, which belonged to the Ratzburg diocese and to the Premonstratensian order from the 14th to the 16th century.
Experience a spiritual place whose history began with the Christianization of the former Slavic country and which, 300 years later, was secularized in the course of the Reformation and pledged to the Electorate of Hanover in the 18th century.
Today the Protestant parish, the monastery association and the official administration are based in the monastery complex and shape the place in the field of tension between religion, civic engagement and regional administration.

kloster-rehna.com

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Klosterverein Doberan

May 22, 2025

The church, originally a Romanesque building, acquired its present form largely in the mid-15th century. Cross-ribbed vaults were added, and a triumphal arch was added between the choir and nave. Remains of wall paintings can be found on the south wall. The carved altar was added to the church in 1520.

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Location: Rehna, Northwest Mecklenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

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1. View of Rehna from Bülow – Rehna Monastery Garden loop from Gadebusch

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