Hachenburg Abbey

The Franciscan Abbey of Hachenburg (German: Franziskanerkloster Hachenburg) was a monastery of the Franciscan order in Hachenburg in the county of Westerwaldkreis in Germany. The abbey of fratrum minorum observantiae strictioris St. Francisci Seraphici ("Friars Minor of Saint Franciscus Seraphicus of the Stricter Observance") belonged to the Thuringian Franciscan Province of Saint Elisabeth.

The Church of the Assumption of Mary (Maria Himmelfahrt), the former Franciscan church on the Alten Markt in Hachenburg

Hachenburg, Maria Himmelfahrt, 2016 aerial photograph

Sources

• Archives of Hachenburg Abbey in the Hessian Main State Archives, Wiesbaden

Literature

• E. Heyn: Der Westerwald. 1893. Niederwalluf, Martin Sändig, Reprint 1970
• Hermann Josef Roth: Der Westerwald. Cologne, DuMont, 1981.
• Daniel Schneider: Die Entwicklung der Konfessionen in der Grafschaft Sayn im Grundriss, in: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreises Altenkirchen 58 (2015), pp. 74–80.
• Bruno M. Struif: Vom Franziskanerkloster Sancta Maria Regina Angelorum zur katholischen Kirche Maria Himmelfahrt in Hachenburg, GeschichtsWerkstatt Hachenburg e.V., 2010, 102 pp.