Himmelpforten
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Himmelpforten is a municipality west of Hamburg in the district of Stade in Lower Saxony. It is located on the Horsterbeck creek. Himmelpforten is also part and the seat of the Samtgemeinde Oldendorf-
Evangelical Lutheran St. Mary's Church
Himmelpforten station is almost at the middle of the Niederelbebahn.
Himmelpforten Convent
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Himmelpforten Convent was founded as a monastery of nuns following the Cistercian Rule during the 13th century in Himmelpforten, in today's Lower Saxony, Germany. During the 16th century, it was conve
The former convent compound around the church (Kirche) with bailiff's house (1), bailiff's office (2), pastorate (3), sexton's house (4), water mill (5), nuns' cemetery (6) and parish cemetery (7), buildings of 1788 pasted over today's structures.
The northern façade of the abbey was kept and integrated into today's St. Mary's Church