Vienenburg - Kloster Woltingerode, Immenrode, Wiedelah, Weddingen, Lengde, Lochtum (English, German, Paperback)

Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Vienenburg is a town in the district of Goslar, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated in the north of the Harz mountain range on the river Oker, approx. 10 km northeast of Goslar. Other neighbouring municipalities are Bad Harzburg and Schladen. Vienenburg was first mentioned in a 1306 deed as a founding by the Counts of Wernigerode, it received town privileges in 1935. Its train station, built in 1840, is the oldest preserved one in Germany. Situated in a mainly agricultural area, the town is known for the Harzer cheese, although the production was transferred to Saxony in 2004. The town consists of Vienenburg and the surrounding villages Immenrode, Lengde, Weddingen, Lochtum and Wiedelah. In 1174 the Counts of Wohldenberg established a Benedictine monastery at their ancestral seat west of Vienenburg, which converted into a Cistercian nunnery a few years later, confirmed by Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa in 1188 and by Pope Honorius III in a 1216 deed. The abbey affiliated to the Bishopric of Hildesheim generated several filial monasteries and left a collection of notable manuscripts, now kept at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbuttel. WoltingerodeIn 1523 the Bishop of Hildesheim in result of an armed conflict had to cede Woltingerode to Duke Henry the Younger of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel. Henry's son Duke Julius turned Protestant in 1568 and in consequence a Lutheran abbess was installed as head of the monastery. During the Thirty Years' War the Bishop of Hildesheim, Ferdinand of Bavaria, referring to the 1629 Edict of Restitution by Emperor Ferdinand II, expelled the nuns and put the abbey under Jesuit rule. Nevertheless in 1632 the Catholic canons had to abscond from the approaching Swedish army and Woltingerode, though it fell back to the Hildesheim Bishopric in 1643, remained Lutheran until the 1803 German Mediatisation. Today Woltingerode is known for its abbey church, a Ro...http: //booksllc.net/?l=d