Quernheim Monastery

Quernheim Abbey was a convent of the Augustinian nuns and later a secular convent in Kirchlengern-Stift Quernheim. Today, the monastery church of St. Marien belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Quernheim Abbey.
The Augustinian convent in Quernheim was probably founded around 1147 by the Lords of Quernheim, a ministerial family of the imperial abbey of Herford, on their own property. The initiative for the foundation on the eastern edge of the Diocese of Osnabrück went back to Bishop Philipp von Katzenelnbogen. The first documentary mention was in 1153. The monastery subsequently succeeded in building up a considerable manor, as evidenced by the village of Klosterbauerschaft today. When the diocese of Minden succeeded in bringing the bailiwick of the monastery under its influence, it was legally subordinated to the diocese in 1520. After 1532, the Reformation was introduced and the monastery was converted into a noble women's convent, which continued to be under the jurisdiction of Minden; Minden gave the monastery a constitution in 1577. Between 1548 and 1555, the church received its present form. In 1810, the monastery was abolished.

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