image author: Stephan Komp

The Benedictine monastery Lüne is situated 20 walking minutes from the city centre Lüneburg. The monastery Lüne was founded in 1172 and has been completely conserved till today.

The textile museum, which opened on the 19. August 1995 shows textile works done by the Lüner Benedictine nuns and Protestant canoness as far as they stayed in the monastery over the centuries.

Via the monastery courtyard, which is surrounded on three sides by Gothic buildings from the 15th and 16th century and on the fourth side by the representative late-Baroque guesthouse the visitor enters the large fountain hall.
Especially impressive are the apart from the fountain hall and cloisters the stained glass windows from the 14th-century to 17th-century, the refectory with the Secco paintings, the 'Sarggang' and the 'Uhlenflucht' with the painted former nun cells from post-reformatory times, the church consecrated in 1410 with the carved provost chair, the Baroque angel, the baptismal font and the Gothic retable, the nun choir with a Lamentation picture from the workshop of Lucas Cranach the elder, a candelabra-Madonna, different Gothic wardrobes and chests - the oldest from 1174.

image author: Heidemonk

Monastery website:

http://www.kloster-luene.de/


Address:
Kloster Lüne
Am Domänenhof
21337 Lüneburg
Telephone 04131-52318
Fax 04131-56052