Nienburg Abbey

Nienburg Abbey
Kloster Nienburg (German)
late 10th century–1166
StatusImperial Abbey
CapitalNienburg Abbey
GovernmentTheocracy
Historical eraMiddle Ages
 Abbey moved from
    Thankmarsfelde

975
 Granted immediacy
    by Otto II

late 10th century
 Annalista Saxo
    chronicle authored

ca 1150
 Annexed by
    Abp Magdeburg
1166
 Magdeburg secularised
    to duchy

1680
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Duchy of Saxony
Archbishopric of Magdeburg
Today part ofGermany

Nienburg Abbey (German: Kloster Nienburg) was a Benedictine monastery in Nienburg in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.