Altenberg Abbey (german: Kloster Altenberg) is a former

Premonstratensian The Order of Canons Regular of Prémontré (), also known as the Premonstratensians, the Norbertines and, in Britain and Ireland, as the White Canons (from the colour of their habit), is a religious order of canons regular of the Catholic Church ...

nunnery situated between

Solms Geography Location Solms lies right in the Lahn valley at the mouth of the eponymous little river Solmsbach and is nestled between the foothills of both the Taunus and Westerwald at heights from 140 to 400 m above sea level. It is about 7& ...

and

Wetzlar Wetzlar () is a city in the state of Hesse, Germany. It is the twelfth largest city in Hesse with currently 55,371 inhabitants at the beginning of 2019 (including second homes). As an important cultural, industrial and commercial center, the un ...

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, Germany. It was founded in and dissolved in 1802. It had a strong connection with the

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, several of whom were nuns and abbesses, and some family members, including

Otto I, Count of Nassau Otto I of Nassau, german: Otto I. von Nassau (born in 1224 and died between 3 May 1289 and 19 March 1290)Dek (1970).Vorsterman van Oyen (1882). was Count of Nassau and is the ancestor of the Ottonian branch of the House of Nassau. Biography ...

, were buried here; it was also a burial place for the Counts of Solms. The buildings were seriously damaged by a fire in 1952. Those that survive accommodate a meeting centre for the local deanery and since 2018 a small Protestant religious community.

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LAGIS-Hessen.deLandesamt für Denkmalpflege Hessen

* Albert Hardt: ''Urkundenbuch der Klöster Altenberg, Dorlar, Retters''. Wolfenacker 2000 * * *''Begründer der Oranier-Linie liegt auf dem Altenberg begraben'', Wetzlarer Neue Zeitung, 11 April 2016 * Thomas Doepner: ''Das Prämonstratenserinnenkloster Altenberg im Hoch- und Spätmittelalter. Sozial- und frömmigkeitsgeschichtliche Untersuchungen''. (Untersuchungen und Materialien zur Verfassungs- und Landesgeschichte; 16), Zugl.: Köln, Univ. Diss., ed. Hessisches Landesamt für geschichtliche Landeskunde, N.G. Elwert Verlag, Marburg 1999, Premonstratensian monasteries in Germany Nunneries in Germany {{Hesse-struct-stub

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