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The Franciscan Abbey of Hachenburg (german: Franziskanerkloster Hachenburg) was a

monastery A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone ( hermits). A monastery generally includes a place reserved for prayer whi ...

of the Franciscan order in

Hachenburg Hachenburg is a town in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Geography The town lies in the Westerwald between Koblenz and Siegen, roughly 10 km west of Bad Marienberg on the river Nister. Hachenburg is the administrative ...

in the county of

Westerwaldkreis The Westerwaldkreis ("District of Westerwald") is a district (''Kreis'') in the north-east of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Neighbouring districts are (from north clockwise) Altenkirchen, Lahn-Dill, Limburg-Weilburg, Rhein-Lahn, the district-free ...

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. The abbey of ''fratrum minorum observantiae strictioris St. Francisci Seraphici'' ("Friars Minor of Saint

Franciscus Franciscus is a Latin given name, originally an epithet meaning "the Frank, the Frenchman". It was applied to Saint Francis of Assisi (1181/82–1226). Francis had been baptized Giovanni (John); his father was Italian and his mother Proven� ...

Seraphicus of the Stricter Observance") belonged to the Thuringian Franciscan Province of Saint Elisabeth.

Sources

Archives of Hachenburg Abbey in the Hessian Main State Archives, Wiesbaden

References

Literature

* E. Heyn: ''Der Westerwald''. 1893. Niederwalluf, Martin Sändig, Reprint 1970 * Hermann Josef Roth: ''Der Westerwald''. Cologne, DuMont, 1981. * Daniel Schneider: ''Die Entwicklung der Konfessionen in der Grafschaft Sayn im Grundriss'', in: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreises Altenkirchen 58 (2015), pp. 74–80. * Bruno M. Struif: ''Vom Franziskanerkloster Sancta Maria Regina Angelorum zur katholischen Kirche Maria Himmelfahrt in Hachenburg,'' GeschichtsWerkstatt Hachenburg e.V., 2010, 102 pp. {{Coord, 50, 39, 40, N, 7, 49, 27, E, source:wikidata, display=title, format=dms

17th-century establishments in the Holy Roman Empire History of the Westerwald Baroque church buildings in Germany Baroque architecture in Rhineland-Palatinate Heritage sites in Rhineland-Palatinate Buildings and structures in Westerwaldkreis