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    Lehnin Abbey (German: Kloster Lehnin) is a former Cistercian monastery in Lehnin in Brandenburg, Germany. Founded in 1180 and secularized during the Protestant...
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    merger of 14 villages: The centre of the municipality is Lehnin. It is best known for Lehnin Abbey, the oldest monastery in the Margraviate of Brandenburg...
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  • after the death of his brother Otto II in 1205 Otto was buried in the Lehnin Abbey, which he had helped build. Otto governed from 1144 alongside his father...
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    elevation of 29 m, its surface area is 0.38 km². It is located in the municipality of Kloster Lehnin, Potsdam-Mittelmark district. Lehnin Abbey v t e...
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    Cistercian Lehnin Abbey in the Margraviate of Brandenburg. San Michele in Cremona, Lombardy Sorø Abbey on Zealand, since 1161 Lehnin Abbey in Brandenburg...
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  • was badly beaten, and later sent into exile. After Albert's death at Lehnin Abbey, his sons, the elder John I and the younger Albert II, ruled together...
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    and an Ottonian part. The Ascanians were traditionally buried in the Lehnin Abbey in the Ottonian part of the country. In 1258, they founded a Cistercian...
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    Johannine and Ottonian parts. The Ascanians were traditionally buried in the Lehnin Abbey in the Ottonian part of the country. In 1258, they founded a Cistercian...
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  • Lychen. Albert III died on 3 December 1300 and was initially buried at Lehnin Abbey. In 1309, his body was transferred to the Coeli Porta monastery. It was...
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    Brandenburg margraves had to sell the estates to the monks of nearby Lehnin Abbey. The town was devastated by Swedish troops during the Thirty Years' War...
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    first of the Hohenzollern electors to be buried in Brandenburg, first at Lehnin Abbey, later transferred to Berlin Cathedral by order of his grandson Joachim...
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    contract between the Margraves John I and Otto III of Brandenburg and the Lehnin Abbey. Probably a German foundation, the name Cedelen appears to be a dialect...
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    order of enclosed monks and nuns formed in 1098, originating from Cîteaux Abbey. Their monasteries spread throughout Europe during the Middle Ages, but...
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    implemented by the Cistercian monks of nearby Paradyż Abbey, a filial monastery of Lehnin Abbey in the Margraviate of Brandenburg. In 1530 Skwierzyna...
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    Mecklenburg and Herman died during the siege of Lübz. He was buried in the Lehnin Abbey. In 1295 he married Anne of Austria (1280-1327), the daughter of the...
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    Otto I of Brandenburg, established Lehnin Abbey. Later foundations were Buch Abbey near Leisnig (1192) and Grünhain Abbey in the Erzgebirge (1235). In 1208...
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    mention of Zehlendorf (then Cedelendorp) dates back to 1242. Here the Lehnin Abbey bought the settlement and kept it until 1542. Frederick the Great donated...
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    Protestant religious community known as the Luise-Henrietten-Stift in nearby Lehnin Abbey was named after her. With Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg,...
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    and summer as the background for concerts, and in co-operation with Lehnin Abbey the medieval music events of the Musica Mediaevalis concert series. There...
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  • forests. The name comes from the town of Lehnin, where a Cistercian abbey was founded in 1180. Today the Lehnin monastery houses the Luise-Henrietten-Stift...
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    Some places of worship, such as the St. Mary in Brandenburg, and the Lehnin Abbey, were built on pagan shrines. The Cistercians, who had been assigned...
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    when the Margraves of Brandenburg John I and Otto III sold it to the Lehnin Abbey. The word means men who live at the water. Situated on the Barnim plateau...
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    Schlachtensee and Nikolassee in 1242, the monks of the influential Cistercian Lehnin Abbey sought nine years later to expand their estate further north into Teltow...
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    Quedlinburg Abbey Essen Abbey Mauritius Abbey Neuenheerse Ascanians: Lehnin Abbey Hohenstaufens: Adelberg Abbey Lorch Abbey Welfs: Weingarten Abbey Habsburgs:...
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    Potsdam-Mittelmark District, in the landscape region of Zauche, near Lehnin Abbey Kleiner Rummelsberg (81 m; possibly a drumlin, disputed), end moraine...
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  • Kyritz), Kyritz: Franciscan friars (c.1225[?]-1552) Lehnin Abbey (Kloster Lehnin), Kloster Lehnin: Cistercian monks (1180–1542); premises used for the...
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    The first contest was held in October 2004 – the article Kloster Lehnin (Lehnin Abbey) was selected as the winner from 44 nominated articles. The second...
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    the Margraves of Brandenburg-Stendel would be buried, considering that Lehnin Abbey, where the earlier margraves had been buried, was located in the part...
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    brother and joined the Knights Templar. Hedwig died the same year; she was buried at the Cistercian abbey of Lehnin Habsburg Family Hedwig von Habsburg...
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  • buried in Lehnin Abbey), married in August 1205 Albert II, Margrave of Brandenburg (d. 25 February 1220). Agnes (d. 1266), founder of Wienhausen Abbey and buried...
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