Lüne Abbey

Lüne Monastery (Kloster Lüne) is an Evangelical-Lutheran convent that is managed by the Klosterkammer Hannover (Hanover Monastic Chamber). The current abbess is Amélie Gräfin zu Dohna, her predecessor until 2022 was Reinhild Freifrau von der Goltz. It was founded in 1172 as a Benedictine nunnery in the Lower Saxon town of Lüneburg. The convent soon established itself as a wealthy and autonomous local power in the Lüneburg Heath region. It recruited its nuns mostly from the influential patrician families of Lüneburg and accommodated up to 60 women over most of its existence. These women would be thoroughly educated in Latin, Liberal Arts and in Christian doctrine and liturgy. Over the course of the 15th and 16th centuries, the convent structure changed first through the monastic reform (1481), then through the Protestant Reformation.

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