Preetz Priory

{{Short description|Former nunnery in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany}}

Preetz Priory ({{langx|de|Kloster Preetz}}) is a former Benedictine nunnery in the town of Preetz, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It operates today as a collegiate residence for ladies (Stift).

History

The nunnery was founded in 1211 by Graf Albrecht of Orlamünde, nephew of King Valdemar II of Denmark, following a mystical experience which, according to him, happened while he was stalking a deer. After he had followed it into a valley, the deer stood still and he suddenly saw a gleaming cross appear between its antlers. He felt that the site was a holy place which he called the Field of Mary ({{langx|de|Marienfelde}}) and to commemorate the vision he founded a nunnery at a location some 2 miles (4 km) away. A monastery on the actual site of the vision was built only in 1260.{{cite web|url=http://www.preetzer-schuetzengilde.de/Pages/Kloster_Preetz.php|work=Preetzer Schutengilder|title= Die Chronik des Adeligen Klosters Preetz|language=de}}

Suppressed in the 16th century due to the Protestant Reformation, it became an aristocratic Lutheran women's convent belonging to the Schleswig-Holstein knighthood. It continues in this capacity.Christian Stocks, Bernhard Schütz, 1975: Preetz. Ev. Adeliges Kloster, Ehem. Benediktinerinnenkloster Campus Beatae Mariae. Brochure, Schnell & Steiner, Kunstführer Nr. 1030, {{ISBN|3795447615}}

References

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20090826093515/http://www.kloster.kloster-preetz.de/ Official website of Preetz Priory]

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Preetz

Category:Christian monasteries established in the 1210s

Category:Buildings and structures in Plön (district)

Category:16th-century disestablishments in the Holy Roman Empire