Ebstorf Abbey

The monastery was Ebstorf (possibly a double monastery) founded in 1160 as a monastery of St. Maurice in Ebstorf as a monastery of Premonstratensian. It is one of several monasteries, which are managed by the monastery Hanover Chamber.

History

The monastery was founded by Volrad of Bodwede, Count of Dannenberg and a nephew of Henry the Lion. In 1197 it was first mentioned in a document. It is one of the six Lüneklöstern, the Protestant convents were after the Reformation.

After a fire in the 12th century Benedictine monastery came from Walsrode by Ebstorf, and Ebstorf became a place of pilgrimage. The monastery buildings from the 14th century, in the style of northern German brick Gothic, are to this day still intact, as is the church hall with the nuns' gallery. The provost dates from the 15th century.

In the 15th century, the life of the nuns changed after Bursfeld monastic reform, which called for a sittenstrengeres life.

In 1529 the Celle Guelph Duke Ernst the Confessor converted the monastery into a Protestant nunnery in order, but only in 1565 the Reformation was fully enforced in the monastery. To date, here evangelical women live under the guidance of a Protestant abbess.

The monastery was famous for his Ebstorfer world map from the 13th century. The original was burned in 1943 in Hanover at one of the air raids on Hanover. In the monastery you can visit a true copy. Other sights include the medieval stained glass windows in the choir nuns, the Madonna statues in the cloister from the 13th to the 15th century, a figure of St. Mauritius, the baptismal font from 1310 and a Renaissance pulpit from 1615, as well as various medieval chests and cabinets.