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Gröningen Priory

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31: 236: 211: 226: 201: 216: 162: 117:. The monks took the relics with them back to Corvey, the Gröningen lands were leased, and large parts of the monastery complex were demolished. 206: 124:, set on a slight eminence. It was dedicated on St Vitus' Day in 940 by Abbot Volkmar of Corvey and from about 1070 re-built in the style of 82: 135:
with three aisles and a number of features of architectural interest. Of particular note is the very unusual octagonal
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on a balustrade from the 12th century, a copy whose original is kept at the sculpture collection of the
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provost retired from office in 1542, the priory was dissolved in the course of the
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A building of particular interest is the preserved monastery church of
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Religious buildings and structures completed in the 930s
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river. Its first monks were sent by Volkmar I, abbot of
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Christian monasteries established in the 10th century
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Kloster Gröningen

German
Benedictine monastery
Gröningen
Saxony-Anhalt
Romanesque Road
Henry the Fowler
Saxon
Siegfried of Merseburg
Gero the Great
Bode
Corvey
priory
Harzgau
Prince-Bishopric of Halberstadt
Catholic
Protestant Reformation
Saint Vitus
Hirsau Abbey
Romanesque
basilica
crossing tower
Armenian architecture
Christ Pantocrator
Bode Museum
Berlin
51°56′14″N 11°11′49″E / 51.93722°N 11.19694°E / 51.93722; 11.19694
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Benedictine monasteries in Germany

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