Gandersheim Abbey
Monastery · Burial place · School or library
monastery
Location: 51.8704, 10.0261
What this place is
- Monastery — Gandersheim Abbey
- School or library — The canonesses' house where Hrotsvitha wrote her plays and her verse history — the first woman in the Latin West known to have written drama.
Who is recorded here
In art
About the place
Gandersheim Abbey is a former house of secular canonesses (Frauenstift) in the present town of Bad Gandersheim in Lower Saxony, Germany; at present it is the Evangelical Lutheran Collegiate Church of Saints Anastasius and Innocent at Gandersheim Abbey.
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