Klosterinsel

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In 1498 Duke Friedrich established in the safety of the Schwalebogen, still recognisable today as trench, a convent, which was dissolved in 1566. Located on the terrain was: the church, the long house, the small house, the office, the workshop, 1 guesthouse, the kitchen with a cellar and the porter's house.

Duke Adolf had his estate rebuilt to a ducal and later to a princely house. Different family members resided there between 1570 and 1647, then sergeant-general Hans Rantzau lived in the princely house. Until the town Neumünster bought the Klosterinsel in 1915, the princely house served as the seat of the bailiff with prison, as jail and bedlam, wool factory, cloth factory, chrome tannery and hosiery factory.

The convent buildings were pulled down in 1933; in 1938 a 'Museum for German traditional Costumes' was established on the terrain, which was destroyed by bombs in 1945. In 1960 the park was inaugurated with fountain and flower beds.




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