Wienhausen Abbey

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Wienhausen Abbey or Convent (German: Kloster Wienhausen) near Celle in Lower Saxony, Germany, is a community of Evangelical Lutheran women, which until the Reformation was a Cistercian Catholic nunnery. The abbey owns significant artworks and artifacts, including a collection of tapestries and the earliest surviving example of a type of eyeglasses.

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Wienhausen Abbey
An der Kirche, Samtgemeinde Flotwedel

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Kloster Wienhausen

An der Kirche
29342 Samtgemeinde Flotwedel
Lower Saxony, Germany
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