Frauenzell Abbey

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Former abbey church

Frauenzell Abbey (German : Kloster Frauenzell) was a Benedictine monastery situated in Frauenzell, which is part of Brennberg in Bavaria, Germany.

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Dedicated to the Virgin Mary, the monastery was founded in 1321 by Count Reinmar IV von Brennberg, developing an existing hermitage. At first a cell of Oberalteich Abbey, it became a dependent priory in 1350 and was granted the status of an independent abbey in 1424. [1] [2]

It was dissolved in 1803 in the secularisation of the period. Some of the buildings were used for the accommodation of the school and the minister's house; the rest were sold to the villagers. The monastic church remains as a parish and pilgrimage church. [1] [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 Klöster in Bayern: Frauenzell - Benediktinische Geistigkeit im Waldkloster (Manfred Knedlik)
  2. 1 2 Joseph Sächerl: Chronik des Benediktiner-Klosters Frauenzell. (Verhandlungen des Historischen Vereines von Oberpfalz und Regensburg, Band 15). OCLC 775064361, pp. 269–273

Further reading

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