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Stift Fischbeck

LC control no.n 80039922
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Corporate name headingStift Fischbeck
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Variant(s)Fischbeck Abbey
Beginning date0955
Associated countryGermany
LocatedHessisch Oldendorf, Germany
AddressStift Fischbeck Verlwaltung, Im Stift 6a Hessisch Oldendorf Germany 31840 info@stift-Fischbeck.de
Field of activityMonastic and religious life of women
Found inIts Urkundenbuch des Stiftes Fischbeck, 1978- : v. 1, t.p. (Stiftes Fischbeck) p. 5 (founded 955)
Cottineau, 1937 (Fischbeck, monastery)
Wikipedia, Apr. 11, 2013: "Fischbeck Abbey" (Fischbeck Abbey; German name: Stift Fischbeck; a convent for cannonesses in Fischbeck near Hessisch Oldendorf, Lower Saxony, Germany; founded 955 by the noblewoman Helburgis, on land donated by King Otto I; still a house of canonesses today, though now Lutheran women's convent rather than Roman Catholic; despite later repairs and reburbishments, the buildings (mostly 12th/13th cent.) are basically Romanesque)
Stift Fischbeck website, via WWW, Apr. 11, 2013: "Chronik" (Stift Fischbeck; founded 955; Lutheran worship introduced in 1559; millenial celebration in 1955; address: Stift Fischbeck Verwaltung, Im Stift 6a, 31840 Hess. Oldendorf; email address: info@stift-Fischbeck.de)