Marienstatt Abbey

Marienstatt Abbey
The Cistercian monastery in 2016
Marienstatt Abbey
50°41′06″N 07°48′11″E / 50.68500°N 7.80306°E / 50.68500; 7.80306
LocationStreithausen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
DenominationCatholic (Cistercians)
Websitewww.abtei-marienstatt.de
History
Founded1212
DedicationAssumption of Mary
Architecture
Style
  • Gothic
  • Baroque

Marienstatt Abbey (German: Abtei Marienstatt, Latin: Abbatia Loci Sanctae Mariæ) is a Cistercian monastery and a pilgrimage site in Streithausen, Westerwaldkreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, in the Nister valley near Hachenburg.

The abbey has an early-Gothic Basilica with the largest organ in the Westerwald, a library, a brewery with restaurant, a shop for books and art, a guest house, and a privately supported secondary school, the Privates Gymnasium Marienstatt.

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