page_title: Lüne Abbey
section_title: Architecture
hierarchical_section_title: Lüne Abbey / Architecture
caption_attribution_description: Wandmalerei an der Ostwand des Refektoriums des Klosters Lüne (um 1500).
context_page_description: Lüne Abbey is a former Benedictine nunnery in the Lower Saxon town of Lüneburg. Today it is a Protestant Lutheran convent and is managed by the Klosterkammer Hannover. The current abbess is Reinhild Freifrau von der Goltz.
  Founded in 1172, the convent soon established itself as a wealthy and autonomous local power in the Lüneburg Heath region. It recruited its nuns mostly from the influential patrician families of Lüneburg and accommodated up to 60 women over most of its existence. These women would be thoroughly educated in Latin, Liberal Arts and in Christian doctrine and liturgy. Over the course of the 15th and 16th centuries, the convent structure changed first through the monastic reform, then through the Protestant Reformation but was never resolved.
context_section_description: In 1380 the convent was rebuilt in the Brick Gothic style after a major fire. The cloisters, the single-nave church of 1412 and the Nonnenchor (nuns' choir) are well preserved, the same is true of the former Dormitorium (dormitory).
caption: Wall painting on the east wall of the refectory dating to 1500
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