For the Cistercian abbey in North Rhine-Westphalia, see Altenberg Abbey.
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50°33′34″N8°26′46″E / 50.55931°N 8.44599°E / 50.55931; 8.44599Altenberg Abbey (German: Kloster Altenberg) is a former Premonstratensian nunnery situated between Solms and Wetzlar, Hesse, Germany. It was founded in c. 1170 and dissolved in 1802.[1] It had a strong connection with the House of Nassau, several of whom were nuns and abbesses, and some family members, including Otto I, Count of Nassau, were buried here;[2] it was also a burial place for the Counts of Solms.[3] The buildings were seriously damaged by a fire in 1952. Those that survive accommodate a meeting centre for the local deanery and since 2018 a small Protestant religious community.[1]
Begründer der Oranier-Linie liegt auf dem Altenberg begraben, Wetzlarer Neue Zeitung, 11 April 2016
Thomas Doepner: Das Prämonstratenserinnenkloster Altenberg im Hoch- und Spätmittelalter. Sozial- und frömmigkeitsgeschichtliche Untersuchungen. (Untersuchungen und Materialien zur Verfassungs- und Landesgeschichte; 16), Zugl.: Köln, Univ. Diss., ed. Hessisches Landesamt für geschichtliche Landeskunde, N.G. Elwert Verlag, Marburg 1999, ISBN3-7708-1128-3
