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The Benedictine monastery was first recorded in 1197. The monastery was donated by the earl of Danneberg, Volrad von Bodwede and a nephew of Henry the Lion.
It is one of six Lüne monasteries ( Lüne, Isernhagen, Wienhausen, Medingen and Walsrode ), which were built in the North German redbrick Gothic style.

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After a fire in the 12th-century the Benedictines came from the Monastery Walsrode to Ebstorf. This way Ebstorf became a Marian pilgrimage site.

In the year 1529 the Celler Welfen Duke Ernest I changed the monastery to Protestant nunnery but complete conversion of the reformation in the monastery took place only in 1556.

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The monastery building, including hall church and gallery for the nuns have been completely conserved.

The monastery became famous through the Ebstorfer world map from the 13th-century. A copy true to original can be seen in the monastery. the orginal was destroyed in the 2nd World War. The monastery also houses medieval sacral treasures like the Baroque altar (1684), the Renaissance pulpit (1615), the baptismal font from 1310, a life-size figure of the holy Mauritius, the cloisters with glass paintings in 15 windows and the 'Mirror of Human Salvation' (around 1400).