Isenhagen Abbey

Isenhagen Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery and today's Protestant nunnery in Hankensbuettel the Gifhorn district in Lower Saxony. It is managed by the monastery Hanover Chamber.

Formation

The monastery Isenhagen name probably derives from its original location on the Ise and the word hag. It originated in 1243 as a monk of the Cistercian monastery in what is now the district of Alt- Hankensbütteler Isenhagen. After it was burnt down after 16 years of its existence, it was rebuilt in 1262 as a convent again. 1329 was the relocation to Hankensbuettel. At its present location Isenhagen the third monastery was built from 1345. The Celle Duke Ernst the Confessor converted the monastery in 1540 in a Protestant convent to. Until the district reform in the county Isenhagen had his seat here

Description

Since the Reformation, the monastery is a convention of evangelical women. These show in its Gothic brick buildings a rich treasure of medieval furniture and works of art of high rank: carved and painted altarpieces, sculptures, small images for private devotion, especially embroidered altar cloths and frontals, which are partially occupied with gold reliefs and pearls.