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Kloster Osterhofen | |
 Copper engraving of the abbey by Johann Ulrich Kraus from the "Churbaierische Atlas" of Anton Wilhelm Ertl, 1687 | |
  Location within Bavaria  Osterhofen Abbey (Germany) | |
| Monastery information | |
|---|---|
| Other names | Altenmarkt Abbey |
| Order | Premonstratensian |
| Established | 1128 |
| Disestablished | 1783 |
| Dedicated to | Saint Margaret |
| Diocese | Passau |
| People | |
| Founder(s) | Bishop Otto von Bamberg |
| Architecture | |
| Functional status | In use |
| Site | |
| Coordinates | 48°41′30″N 13°00′55″E / 48.6916°N 13.0153°E |
Osterhofen Abbey (German: Kloster Osterhofen, also called Altenmarkt Convent German: Altenmarkt-Damenstift) is a former monastery in Bavaria, Germany, It is located in the Altenmarkt section of Osterhofen, a town to the south of the Danube between Deggendorf and Vilshofen / Passau. It has its origins in a collegiate built in 1004–09. From 1128 to 1783 it was a Premonstratensian monastery. For a while it was then a convent. Today it contains a girls' secondary school. The former abbey church, a magnificent late baroque building erected in 1726–40, is now the Basilica of Saint Margaret.