Isenhagen Abbey

It was a nunnery founded by the Cistercian order but is now a Lutheran women's convent.

The name of the abbey, Isenhagen, is probably derived from its original site next to the River Ise and an area of woodland.

It was founded in 1243 as a friary for Cistercians in the present-day locality of Alt-Isenhagen within the town of Hankensbüttel.

In its Brick Gothic buildings it houses a rich treasure of medieval furniture and high quality works of art: carved and painted altars, sculptures, small paintings for private devotions and embroidered altar cloths and antependia, some of which are adorned with golden reliefs and pearls.

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