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title: "The Gateway to History - Collection of the Frauenstift Gandersheim"
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description: "Embark on a journey through 1,000 years of history and experience medieval treasures, strong women, baroque splendour and the dark past of National Socialism at authentic locations.In the Bad Gandersheim collegiate church, you will discover the abbey treasure and follow in the footsteps of Ottonian rulers and noble abbesses. The former Brunshausen Abbey invites you to get to know the strong women of the abbey: visionaries, empresses, scholars, religious warriors, the famous German poet Roswitha von Gandersheim and the prince abbess Elisabeth Ernestine Antonie. In the so-called summer palace of this abbess, baroque joie de vivre, the need for representation and a thirst for knowledge merge into a total work of art"
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The Gateway to History - Collection of the Frauenstift Gandersheim
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- Castle
- Historical site
- Church
- History museum

Das Kloster Brunshausen

Portal to history between crown and chains

 Embark on a journey through 1,000 years of history and experience medieval treasures, strong women, baroque splendour and the dark past of National Socialism at authentic locations.
In the Bad Gandersheim collegiate church, you will discover the abbey treasure and follow in the footsteps of Ottonian rulers and noble abbesses. The former Brunshausen Abbey invites you to get to know the strong women of the abbey: visionaries, empresses, scholars, religious warriors, the famous German poet Roswitha von Gandersheim and the prince abbess Elisabeth Ernestine Antonie. In the so-called summer palace of this abbess, baroque joie de vivre, the need for representation and a thirst for knowledge merge into a total work of art

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**Travel for Everyone**Partly barrier-free visit

**General Information on Accessibility**partial available

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Contact

**Sammlung Frauenstift Gandersheim**

Brunshausen 7

37581 Bad Gandersheim