Cismar Abbey

The abbey was founded in 1238 by Count Adolf IV of Holstein as alternative accommodation for Benedictine monks from Lübeck.

In the mid-15th century it was one of the six original members of the influential Bursfelde Congregation, a Benedictine reform movement.

After three prosperous centuries, based largely on its possession of a relic of the blood of Christ and a healing spring dedicated to John the Baptist, which made it a centre of pilgrimage, it was dissolved in 1561 during the secularisation brought about by the Reformation.

[1][2] The other surviving buildings, after a wide variety of secular uses, now serve as a museum.

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