Boitzenburg monastery ruins

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Boitzenburg monastery ruins

The Boitzenburg monastery ruins are the ruins of a Cistercian monastery that was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War . The ruin is located on the eastern edge of the village Boitzenburg , which is about 20 km west of Prenzlau and about 80 km north of Berlin in the Uckermark ( Brandenburg ).

The monastery was founded in 1271 by the Margraves Johann II, Otto IV and Konrad von Brandenburg and equipped with extensive property. Construction took place around the same time as the Chorin monastery was built . In 1281 it was merged with the Flieth Monastery. During the Reformation , the monastery was secularized in 1536 , but was retained as a building. In 1538 the bailiff of the Uckermark, Hans von Arnim, received the monastery property as a fief and granted the remaining nuns lifelong right of residence. During the Thirty Years War, the facility was destroyed by Danish troops in 1637 and never rebuilt. In the following centuries the building continued to deteriorate. The ruins and the surrounding land remained in the possession of the von Arnim family until 1945 .

Today the ruin is secured, protected from further deterioration and freely accessible. From 2005 to 2012 it served as a backdrop for performances at the Boitzenburg Monastery Ruin Theater in the summer .

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Coordinates: 53 ° 15 ′ 57 ″  N , 13 ° 37 ′ 13 ″  E