Burtscheid Abbey

50°45′47″N 6°05′36″E / 50.76306°N 6.09333°E / 50.76306; 6.09333

Imperial Abbey of Burtscheid
Abtei Burtscheid
1138–1802
Coat of arms
Burtscheid Abbey church
StatusImperial Abbey
CapitalBurtscheid Abbey
Common languagesMoselle Franconian
GovernmentTheocracy
Historical eraMiddle Ages
• Founded by Benedictines
997
• Made Reichsfrei
1138
• Taken over by Cistercians,
    immediacy confirmed

1220
• Purchased its own Vogtei
1649
• Established gambling house
1779
• Occupied by France
1792, 1794–1804
1802
• Awarded to Prussia
1815
 Succeeded by
Roer (department)
Today part ofGermany

Burtscheid Abbey (German: Abtei Burtscheid) was a Benedictine monastery, after 1220 a Cistercian nunnery, located at Burtscheid, near Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.

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