- Heiligengrabe
Infobox Ort in Deutschland
Wappen = Wappen Heiligengrabe.png
lat_deg = 53 |lat_min = 09
lon_deg = 12 |lon_min = 21
Lageplan = Heiligengrabe in OPR.png
Landkreis = Ostprignitz-Ruppin
Höhe = 75
Fläche = 232.30
Einwohner = 5046
Stand = 2006-12-31
PLZ = 16909
Vorwahl = 033962
Kfz = OPR
Gemeindeschlüssel = 12 0 68 181
Gliederung = 14Ortsteil e
Straße = Am Birkenwäldchen 1a
Website = [http://www.heiligengrabe.de/ www.heiligengrabe.de]
Bürgermeister = Egmont Hamelow
Partei = Wählergruppe Heiligengraber LandHeiligengrabe is a municipality in the
Ostprignitz-Ruppin district, inBrandenburg ,Germany .Abbey
Heiligengrabe Abbey (formerly also known as Techow) was founded here as a
Cistercian nunnery in 1289 by Heinrich,Bishop of Havelberg and the Margrave Otto of Brandenburg, initially for 12 nuns. It held an important relic in the form of a Bleeding Host which, so it was said, had been violated by a Jew.The nunnery acquired considerable wealth and estates in the area, partly through the revenue from pilgrims to the Bleeding Host, and partly through donations from the noble families round about, especially when one of their daughters entered the convent. Among the nuns of local great houses were members of the families Gans zu Puttlitz,
von Quitzow ,von Rohr , von Winterfeld andvon Blumenthal . Some of the abbesses were great characters. One had a quarrel with the Duke of Mecklenburg, who refused to pay a debt to the abbey. So she borrowed a large artillery piece and declared war on Mecklenburg, bombarding it across the nearby frontier. At the time of the Reformation, Abbess Anna von Quitzow would have nothing to do with the new religion, and refused to pay tax.After the Reformation the nunnery became a
Lutheran collegiate foundation for secular canonesses ("Stiftsdamen") of the nobility, who were obliged to show sixteen quarterings in their arms before being permitted to enter.Infrastructure
In Heiligengrabe is the
Blumenthal Observation Tower .Gallery
References
External links
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