Lamspringe Abbey

Lamspringe Abbey
Location within Lower Saxony
Monastery information
Full nameLamspringe Abbey
OrderCanonesses Regular; Benedictine
Established847; 1630
Dedicated toSt Adrian of Corinth & St. Denis
Controlled churchesLamspringe Abbey
Site
LocationLamspringe, Hildesheim, Germany
Coordinates51°57′N 10°00′E / 51.95°N 10°E / 51.95; 10
Other informationThe relics of St Oliver Plunkett and the head of St Thomas of Hereford.

Lamspringe Abbey (Stift Lamspringe, later Kloster Lamspringe) is a former religious house of the English Benedictines in exile, at Lamspringe near Hildesheim in Germany.

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