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Arnsburg Abbey

location_on Lich, Hesse, Germany
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About Arnsburg Abbey

Arnsburg Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery close to Lich within the Wetterau, Hesse, Germany. It changed into based via clergymen from Eberbach Abbey in 1174. Although closely damaged within the Thirty Years' War it became rebuilt later in the 17th century and prospered inside the 18th century, whilst a lot of the abbey changed into rebuilt in Baroque style. Secularized in 1803 and deserted by way of its priests in 1810, its financial system buildings had been given to the Grafen von Solms Laubach, who tailored them as their seat.

The abbey church nowadays stands as a roofless break, but most of the outbuildings are nonetheless intact and have seen numerous uses over the past 200 years. Since 1960 the abbey has also been the web page of a conflict memorial, containing the graves of German squattiest and Soviet, Polish and Romanian prisoners of warfare compelled labourers as well as those of 87 human beings shot via the SS inside the final days of World War II. The abbey is in part open to the public.

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