Klosterhof Museum Isenhagen
Museum in the oldest secular building in Gifhorn district, an economic building of Isenhagen Monastery, with a monastery herb garden.
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About the museum
Isenhagen Monastery was founded as a Cistercian monastery in 1243 by Duchess Agnes, initially at Alt-Isenhagen. After a fire and a further relocation, the complex was established around 1345 at its present site in Hankensbüttel, a brick Gothic complex. With the Reformation the monastery was converted in 1540 into a Protestant ladies' foundation, which still exists today and is inhabited by its convent members.
The Klosterhofmuseum is housed in a former storehouse of the monastery, the oldest secular building in the district. It focuses less on spiritual life than on the economic side of monastic communities: agriculture, livestock farming, crafts and trade.
The museum includes a reconstructed medicinal herb garden, which shows how monastery gardens came about and what their plants were used for in medicine and cooking. The monastery itself is inhabited and can only be visited on a guided tour.
Highlights
- Museum in the oldest secular building in the district
- Economic history of monastic communities
- Reconstructed medicinal herb garden
- Guided tours of the inhabited monastery (brick Gothic)
Permanent exhibition
- Klosterwirtschaft und Klosterkräutergarten – The museum in the former storehouse shows the monastery's agriculture, livestock farming, crafts and trade; a medicinal herb garden is part of it.
Admission & discounts
| Tour of Isenhagen Monastery | €5Pupils, students and school classes €2; groups of 20 or more €4 per person (registration required) |
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The prices apply to the tour of the inhabited Isenhagen Monastery.
Accessibility
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Kids & families
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Getting there & parking
By public transit
Wittingen train station
By car via Hannover–Celle–Hankensbüttel or Hamburg–Lüneburg–Uelzen–Hankensbüttel; address: Klosterstraße 2, 29386 Hankensbüttel.
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Plan your visit
| Guided tours | yes |
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| Good to know | The inhabited monastery can only be visited with a guided tour (approx. 1 to 1.5 hours). Groups are asked to register in good time; morning slots are then also possible. |
