Medingen Abbey
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Medingen Abbey or Medingen Convent (German: Kloster Medingen) is a convent for women of the Evangelical Lutheran faith (German: Damenstift) near the Lower Saxon town of Bad Bevensen and is supervised by the Monastic Chamber of Hanover (Klosterkammer Hannover). The current director of the abbey (Äbtissin) is the art historian Dr Kristin Püttmann. The abbey was built as a Cistercian nunnery.
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