Kloster Veßra is a municipality in the district of Hildburghausen

Hildburghausen (district)

Hildburghausen is a district in Thuringia, Germany. It is bounded by the district of Schmalkalden-Meiningen, the city of Suhl, the districts of Ilm-Kreis, Saalfeld-Rudolstadt and Sonneberg, and the state of Bavaria...

 in Thuringia

Thuringia

The Free State of Thuringia is a state of Germany, located in the central part of the country.It has an area of and 2.29 million inhabitants, making it the sixth smallest by area and the fifth smallest by population of Germany's sixteen states....

, Germany

Germany

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Vessra Abbey

Vessra Abbey

Vessra Abbey was a Premonstratensian monastery in the village also named Kloster Veßra in the district of Hildburghausen, Thuringia, Germany....

 (now an open-air museum) was founded and supported by the Henneberg

Henneberg

Henneberg may refer to:*the House of Henneberg, German nobility*County of Henneberg, a mediæval state in the Holy Roman Empire*Henneberg, Thuringia, a municipality in Thuringia, Germany*Mary Jane Henneberg, b. 1973, TV reporter...

 family and abandoned after the Reformation. The church was used as a parish church until 1939 when it burned. It also had a close association with the von Bibra family in the 15th century.

External links

• Website of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft
• Hennebergisches Museum Kloster Veßra
• Photo tour of the Klosters by Thüringer-Landschaften.de