It was founded around 1250 as a Cistercian monastery. After the Reformation, it functioned as a Protestant women's convent. During the Thirty Years' War, significant parts of the monastery complex were destroyed and never rebuilt.
The monastery buildings that have survived are now used for cultural and religious purposes.
The cemetery was temporarily desecrated and then re-consecrated years later. Since the beginning of the monastery, it has served as a burial place for all members of the monastery.

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November 7, 2025

The Cistercian convent of Zehdenick was founded around 1250 by Margraves John I and Otto III of Brandenburg and their sister Mechthild. According to legend, the impetus was a Eucharistic miracle from 1249: An innkeeper had buried a consecrated host to boost her beer sales. When she repented and the host was recovered, bloody soil was found – an event interpreted as divine. This "blood miracle" made Zehdenick a place of pilgrimage and motivated the founding of the convent southeast of the town on the Havel River.

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Location: Zehdenick, Oberhavel, Ruppiner Lakeland, Brandenburg, Germany

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