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Serious development of the community began in 1948, under the newly elected second abbot, Dr. Albert Ohlmeyer. In 1960 the restored and extended church was dedicated. After Dr. Ohlmeyer's death in 1976 the community elected Dom Maurus Berve, and after his early decease in 1986, Dom Franziskus
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The problems of the new foundation were great, and the first abbot, Adalbert von Neipperg, elected in 1929, resigned in 1934, after which the abbey was directed by an administrative board. The dissolution of the abbey during
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The premises then became the property of the Electors Palatine, and were put to a variety of purposes, including in the 1660s and 1670s a
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lasted only a few years, but had an enduring influence on the name of the place, which from this point on has generally been known as
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In 1926 Neuburg was reacquired for the Benedictines from the poet and mystic Alexander von Bernus, and resettled by
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was prevented by its being used as a refuge for the inmates of a bombed-out old people's home from the
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The monastery at Neuburg was founded in 1130 by Anshelm, a monk from the Benedictine
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the nuns were first recorded as Cistercians in about 1303
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Christian monasteries established in the 12th century
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German
Heidelberg
Baden-Württemberg
Benedictine
Saint Bartholomew
Beuronese Congregation
Lorsch Abbey
Conrad of Hohenstaufen
Count Palatine of the Rhine
Bishop of Mainz
Bishop of Worms
Cistercian
Schönau Abbey
Frederick I, Elector Palatine
Reformation
Frauenstift
Johann Wilhelm II, Elector Palatine
Jesuits
Heidelberg
Heidelberg University
Johann Friedrich Heinrich Schlosser
Goethe
Beuron Archabbey
World War II
Ruhrgebiet
Trappist
Mariawald Abbey
Eifel
Benedictine

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