51°43′27″N 11°08′09″E / 51.72424°N 11.13592°E
Imperial Abbey of Gernrode Stift Gernrode | |
|---|---|
| 959–1614 | |
 The abbey church of Gernrode | |
| Status | Imperial Abbey |
| Capital | Gernrode Abbey |
| Government | Elective principality |
| Historical era | Middle Ages, Early modern |
• Abbey founded | 959 |
| 1500 | |
• Turned Protestant | sixteenth century |
• Disestablished | 1614 |
1816 | |
Gernrode Abbey (German: Stift Gernrode) was a house of secular canonesses (Frauenstift) in Gernrode in what is now Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Gernrode was founded in 959 and was disestablished in the seventeenth century. In the Middle Ages the abbey was an Imperial abbey, which had the status of imperial immediacy (German: Reichunmittelbarkeit), and an Imperial State. In the early modern period, the abbey was part of the Upper Saxon Circle.