Altenberg Abbey () 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 in the Catholic Chur ...

nunnery situated between

Solms Solms () is a town west of Wetzlar in the Lahn-Dill-Kreis, Hessen, Germany with around 13,500 inhabitants. In the constituent community of Burgsolms once stood the ancestral castle of the Counts and Princes of House of Solms, Solms. Geography Lo ...

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 ...

Hesse Hesse or Hessen ( ), officially the State of Hesse (), is a States of Germany, state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urban area is Frankfurt, which is also the country's principal financial centre. Two other major hist ...

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

House of Nassau The House of Nassau is the name of a European aristocratic dynasty. The name originated with a lordship associated with Nassau Castle, which is located in what is now Nassau, Rhineland-Palatinate, Nassau in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. With t ...

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

Otto I, Count of Nassau Otto I of 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 Otto was the third son o ...

, 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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