Marienstatt Abbey | |
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50°41′06″N 07°48′11″E / 50.68500°N 7.80306°E | |
Location | Streithausen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany |
Denomination | Catholic (Cistercians) |
Website | www |
History | |
Founded | 1212 |
Dedication | Assumption of Mary |
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Marienstatt Abbey (German: Abtei Marienstatt, Latin: Abbatia Loci Sanctae Mariæ) is a Cistercian monastery and a pilgrimage site in Streithausen, Westerwaldkreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, in the Nister valley near Hachenburg.
The abbey has an early-Gothic Basilica with the largest organ in the Westerwald, a library, a brewery with restaurant, a shop for books and art, a guest house, and a privately supported secondary school, the Privates Gymnasium Marienstatt.