Riddagshausen Abbey

Riddagshausen Abbey is a former Cistercian abbey founded in 1145, with the mother abbey of Cîteaux in Burgundy as a natural model. After a good sixty years of construction, the monastery church was consecrated in 1275. The guardhouse (which today houses the Cistercian museum) was already built at the end of the 12th century, while the small chapel for foreigners next door was completed shortly before the monastery church. A century after the dissolution of the congregation with the rise of Protestantism, a preaching seminary was founded in the monastery in 1690. With the secularisation of Riddagshausen Monastery in 1809 during the Napoleonic occupation, the preaching seminary was closed. From 1856 to 1883, the abbey church was renovated, and from 1962 to 1975 further improvements and repaints were carried out.

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