List of Christian religious houses in Saxony

This is an incomplete list of Christian religious houses in Saxony in Germany, extant and non-extant, and including houses of both men and women. Most religious houses in Saxony were suppressed during the Reformation in the 16th century, but some survived. A small number also survived the Communist period of the DDR, including the Cistercian nunnery of St. Marienthal Abbey in Ostritz founded in 1243.^[1] Since the reunification of Germany in 1990, a number of new religious communities have been established.

List[]

A[]

• Adorf: Teutonic Knights
• Altzella Abbey (Kloster Altzella), Nossen: Cistercian monks (1170–1540)
• Annaberg Friary (Franziskanerkloster Annaberg), Annaberg-Buchholz: Franciscan friars (1502–39)

B[]

• Bautzen:
  • Franciscan friary, Grosse Brüdergasse
  • St. Peter's collegiate foundation, Bautzen (Stift St. Petri)
• Buch Abbey (Kloster Buch), Klosterbuch in Leisnig: Cistercian monks (shortly before 1192–1525)

C[]

• Chemnitz:
  • Schlossberg: Benedictines
  • Franciscan friary, Chemnitz

D[]

• Döbeln Abbey (Kloster Döbeln), Döbeln: Benedictines
• Dommitzsch Commandery, Dommitzsch: Teutonic Knights
• Dörschnitz Abbey (Kloster Dörschnitz or Kloster Marienpforte), : Benedictines
• Dresden:
  • Sophienkirche, previously the Franziskanerkloster, Dresden
• Zwickau:
  • Cistercian abbey, Zwickau
  • Benedictine abbey, Zwickau
  • Franciscan friary, Zwickau

Notes[]

See also[]

• List of Christian religious houses in Brandenburg
• List of Christian religious houses in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
• List of Christian religious houses in North Rhine-Westphalia
• List of Christian religious houses in Saxony-Anhalt
• List of Christian religious houses in Schleswig-Holstein

Sources[]

• Dresden-und-Sachsen.de (in German)
• Meinestadt.de:Sachsen (in German)
• HTW-Dresden.de: Klöster (with map) (in German)