List of Christian religious houses in North Rhine-Westphalia

This is a list of Christian religious houses, both for men and for women, whether or not still in operation, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Most religious houses survived the Reformation, although many nunneries did so by becoming Lutheran collegiate foundations for women of the aristocracy (Damenstifte). The great majority were closed however during the secularisation of the Napoleonic period, with the exception of the hospital orders, such as the Alexians and their female equivalents, the Cellite Sisters, the number of whose houses is a notable feature of the Land. Also noteworthy are the small communities of local origin, such as the Olpe Sisters and the Schervier Sisters. Extant religious houses are indicated by bold type.

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Kloster Glindfeld aus südwestlicher Richtung

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Heisterbach Abbey, Königswinter: ruins of choir

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Kamp Abbey, Kamp-Lintfort

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Basilica of Steinfeld Abbey, Kall

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Notes

  1. ↑ the mother house of the modern Alexian brothers worldwide
  2. ↑ severely damaged by bombing in World War II, with many deaths
  3. ↑ Bredelar Abbey Protection Society website
  4. ↑ est c1234 in Ottbergen, from there to Brückenfeld vor Höxter c1236;
  5. ↑ a bible museum is also now housed here
  6. ↑ also Kappenberg
  7. ↑ Alexian Hospital, Cologne
  8. ↑ this was the first monastery in Cologne to be dissolved by French
  9. ↑ there were formerly a further five congregations of Cellite Sisters in Cologne: the Cellite Sisters of Little Saint Ursula (Cellitinnenkloster Klein Sankt Ursula); the Cellite Sisters of the Trinity (Cellitinnenkloster Dreifaltigkeit); the Cellite Sisters at the Cell (Cellitinnenkloster „Zur Zelle“); the Cellite Sisters of Little Nazareth (Cellitinnenkloster Klein-Nazareth ); and the Cellite Sisters of Zederwald (Cellitinnenkloster Zederwald)
  10. ↑ so named because it was formerly the hermitage (Eremitage) of a Jesuit between 1684 and 1733
  11. ↑ from c1650 this community was mixed Roman Catholic and Lutheran
  12. ↑ the Augustinian Rule was adopted in 1472
  13. ↑ founded 1274 in Ahlden an der Aller, Lower Saxony
  14. ↑ Gemeinschaft der Seligpreisungen
  15. ↑ Alexian Hospital Münster
  16. ↑ a congregation of the Cellite Sisters

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