Nunnery Treasures in the Ribnitz Clarissa Nunnery

An exhibition treating the history of the Ribnitz Kloster opened on the 28th May 20010. After extensive renovations, the church originally completed ca. 1400 is again open to the public, who have the chance to check out a building lovingly restored: the site's nave and nun's gallerys now seem as if the last old dame of the noble convent housed in the former Clarissa nunnery after the Restoration has just left the building!

The exhibition treats the whole history of the site, bringing together the moving history of the Clarissa Convent founded in the 14th century with the Evangelical Mecklenburg Rural State Nunnery dissolved in 1920. Alongside the priceless "Ribnitz Madonnas," which have been preserved in their original colour scheme, the exhibition displays fascinating artefacts discovered under the nuns' banks during restoration work in 2001. The singular specimens tell the story of doodling nuns and noble abbesses. In the nunnery church, the former landly aristocracy of the region are united in the former convent residents' familial coats of arms. Stain glass artworks attest to the artistic talent of the convent residents. The sedans of the convent residents and a canopy designed for the use of the highly honoured order head are on display, as are many other artefacts revealing the history of the female community over many centuries.

Discover the long-lost and rediscovered treasures of a unique ecclesiastical space, finding out along the way about the life of the Clarissa nuns and the noble landowners' daughters later resident in the convent in the Ribnitz Nunnery.