Burtscheid Abbey

Imperial Abbey of Burtscheid
Abtei Burtscheid
1138–1802
Coat of arms of Burtscheid Abbey
Coat of arms
Burtscheid Abbey church
Burtscheid Abbey church
StatusImperial Abbey
CapitalBurtscheid Abbey
Common languagesMoselle Franconian
GovernmentTheocracy
Historical eraMiddle Ages
• Founded by Benedictines
997
• Made Reichsfrei
1138
• Taken over by Cistercians,
    immediacy confirmed

1220
• Purchased its own Vogtei
1649
• Established gambling house
1779
• Occupied by France
1792, 1794–1804
1802
• Awarded to Prussia
1815
Succeeded by
Roer (department)
Today part ofGermany

Burtscheid Abbey (German: Abtei Burtscheid) was a Benedictine monastery, after 1220 a Cistercian nunnery, located at Burtscheid, near Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.


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