List of Christian religious houses in Germany
Encyclopedia
This is a list of Christian religious houses in Germany
, both extant and dissolved, and for either men or women (or both), arranged by state
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Bavaria
Brandenburg
Lower Saxony
North Rhine-Westphalia
Rhineland-Palatinate
Schleswig-Holstein
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, both extant and dissolved, and for either men or women (or both), arranged by state
States of Germany
Germany is made up of sixteen which are partly sovereign constituent states of the Federal Republic of Germany. Land literally translates as "country", and constitutionally speaking, they are constituent countries...
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BavariaBavariaBavaria, formally the Free State of Bavaria is a state of Germany, located in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the largest state by area, forming almost 20% of the total land area of Germany...
- Beuerberg AbbeyBeuerberg AbbeyBeuerberg Abbey , formerly a monastery of the Augustinian Canons, is now the Monastery of the Visitation, Beuerberg, a house of the Visitandines in Eurasburg in Bavaria, Germany.-Canons:...
(Kloster Beuerberg), formerly a monastery of the Augustinian Canons, is now the Monastery of the Visitation, Beuerberg, in EurasburgEurasburgEurasburg is a municipality in Oberbayern . It sits about 40 kilometers south of the Bavarian state capital, Munich, in the county of Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen....
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BrandenburgBrandenburgBrandenburg is one of the sixteen federal-states of Germany. It lies in the east of the country and is one of the new federal states that were re-created in 1990 upon the reunification of the former West Germany and East Germany. The capital is Potsdam...
- see List of Christian religious houses in Brandenburg. This list also includes Berlin.
Lower SaxonyLower SaxonyLower Saxony is a German state situated in north-western Germany and is second in area and fourth in population among the sixteen states of Germany...
- see List of Christian religious houses in Lower Saxony. This list also includes Bremen.
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
North Rhine-WestphaliaNorth Rhine-WestphaliaNorth Rhine-Westphalia is the most populous state of Germany, with four of the country's ten largest cities. The state was formed in 1946 as a merger of the northern Rhineland and Westphalia, both formerly part of Prussia. Its capital is Düsseldorf. The state is currently run by a coalition of the...
Rhineland-PalatinateRhineland-PalatinateRhineland-Palatinate is one of the 16 states of the Federal Republic of Germany. It has an area of and about four million inhabitants. The capital is Mainz. English speakers also commonly refer to the state by its German name, Rheinland-Pfalz ....
- see List of Christian religious houses in Rhineland-Palatinate. This list also includes Saarland.
Schleswig-HolsteinSchleswig-HolsteinSchleswig-Holstein is the northernmost of the sixteen states of Germany, comprising most of the historical duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of Schleswig...
- see List of Christian religious houses in Schleswig-Holstein. This list also includes Hamburg.
Sources
- Sterba, Thomas, 2010: Herders Neues Klösterlexikon. Herder-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-451-30500-9