BERLIN – A Cistercian monastery that’s existed for almost 900 years in what is now western Germany is closing down for good, because of a shortage of monks. The Himmerod Abbey, founded in 1134 by the ...

The coins were found at Himmelpforte monastery in Germany, which was looted by rebel farmers in 1525, experts said. Robert Prust Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt Amid banging ...

A collection of more than 1,000 books taken from a shuttered, female-led abbey in southern Germany is being preserved and digitized much to the delight of scholars who had feared it might be lost. A ...

ALTOMUENSTER, Germany – It was filthy, cramped and in major disarray, but when art historian Eva Lindqvist Sandgren entered the library in Altomuenster Abbey, off-limits to all but the German ...

BERLIN — Bavarian Catholic church authorities said Thursday they have closed Germany’s last Bridgettine Order abbey at the request of the Vatican — renewing concerns about what will happen to the ...