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Herford Abbey

8th-century churches in Germany8th-century establishments in GermanyBuildings and structures in Herford (district)Churches completed in 789Imperial abbeys
Imperial abbeys disestablished in 1802–03Lutheran women's religious housesMonasteries in North Rhine-Westphalia
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Herford Abbey (German: Frauenstift Herford) was the oldest women's religious house in the Duchy of Saxony. It was founded as a house of secular canonesses in 789, initially in Müdehorst (near the modern Bielefeld) by a nobleman called Waltger, who moved it in about 800 onto the lands of his estate Herivurth (later Oldenhervorde) which stood at the crossing of a number of important roads and fords over the Aa and the Werre. The present city of Herford grew up on this site around the abbey.

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