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Hamborn Abbey, Duisburg, Germany

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This is Hamborn Abbey in Duisburg.

Here are some views of the Abbey Church.

(Photo Credit: R. D. Ludger Horstkötter, O. Praem, 2003)

(Photo Credit: R. D. Ludger Horstkötter, O. Praem, 2003)

The rest of the old monastery - ca. 1769

(Photo Credit: R. D. Ludger Horstkötter, O. Praem, 2003)

An aerial view of the abbey and buildings surrounding it.  An explanation is below.  

1.  St. John's Hospital

2.  Abbey Gymnasium, a Diocesan secondary school.

3.  Abbey, cloister and surrounding cemetery.

4.  Abbey activities center.

Cloister garden, with seating for a concert.  

Springtime in the Cloister garden!

Inside the open Cloister walk, 12th century.

Views of the Cloister garden.

Some treasures of the Abbey

Painting of St. Norbert, 18th century

Detail of the painting above, 

to the left of St. Norbert's right hand, is a depiction of the Abbey, 18th century.

Here is another painting, from 1847, 

showing the appearance of the abbey at that time.  

Inside the restored church.  Looking toward the main altar and choir area.

Looking toward the rear of the church, toward the 

main entryway and the pipe organ array.

Much of the church was destroyed in the mass-air-raids 

of the Second World War.  

Note the older foundation of these Abbey Church pillars, for example.

Stained glass window above the Presider's chair at the east end of the Abbey Church.

Baptismal font ornamentation, 13th century.

Vestment ornamentation detail, 16th century.

 Chasuble, 16th century.

Crozier, 1726.

Monstrance, 1710.

Processional cross, modern-era.

St. Anne, Blessed Virgin Mary and Child, 15th century

Crucifixion, 17th century..