Bursfelde Abbey
Bursfelde Abbey (in German Kloster Bursfelde) is a former Benedictine monastery located in Bursfelde, a hamlet which for administrative purposes is included in the municipality of nearby Hannoversch Münden in Lower Saxony, Germany. Today the abbey church and its estate cover a site of approximately 300 hectares which is administered by the Klosterkammer Hannover, a body that operates under the auspices of the Lower Saxony Ministry for Arts and the Sciences to look after reassigned or disused ecclesiastical buildings and other heritage properties in the region. The legal owner of the Bursfelde Monastery Complex ("Zentrums Kloster Bursfelde") is the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Hanover.
Bursfelde Abbey in 2010 showing the church | |
| Monastery information | |
|---|---|
| Order | Benedictine |
| Established | 1093 |
| Disestablished | 1579 |
| Mother house | Corvey Abbey |
| People | |
| Founder(s) | Heinrich of Northeim |
| Site | |
| Location | Bursfelde, Lower Saxony, Germany |
| Visible remains | only the church, new towers were built in the 19th century |
| Public access | yes |
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