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Kloster Osterhofen | |
![]() Copper engraving of the abbey by Johann Ulrich Kraus from the "Churbaierische Atlas" of Anton Wilhelm Ertl, 1687 | |
Monastery information | |
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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.