Nienburg Abbey

Nienburg Abbey
Kloster Nienburg (German)
late 10th century–1166
StatusImperial Abbey
CapitalNienburg Abbey
GovernmentTheocracy
Historical eraMiddle Ages
• Abbey moved from
    Thankmarsfelde

975
• Granted immediacy
    by Otto II

late 10th century
• Annalista Saxo
    chronicle authored

ca 1150
• Annexed by
    Abp Magdeburg
1166
• Magdeburg secularised
    to duchy

1680
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Duchy of Saxony
Archbishopric of Magdeburg
Today part ofGermany

Nienburg Abbey (German: Kloster Nienburg) was a Benedictine monastery in Nienburg in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.