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'''Malchow Abbey''' (''Kloster Malchow'') is a former [[Cistercian nunnery]] in [[Malchow (Mecklenburg)|Malchow]] in the [[Mecklenburgische Seenplatte (district)|district of Mecklenburgische Seenplatte]] in [[Mecklenburg-Vorpommern]], [[Germany]]. The monastic buildings are on the east shore of [[Lake Malchow]] and now accommodate the '''Mecklenburgisches Orgelmuseum'''.<br />
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==History==<br />
In 1298 the [[Cistercian]] nunnery formerly situated at [[Röbel]] settled in Alt-Malchow and took over the premises of the former Magdalene community here. [[Nicholas II of Werle|Nicholas II]], Prince of [[Werle]], gave the new nunnery the patronage of the churches at Alt-Malchow, Neu-Malchow and Lexow (in [[Walow]]). After the [[Protestant Reformation|Reformation]] the abbey was a [[Stift#Stift as endowment for unmarried Protestant women|collegiate foundation for noblewomen]] (''Damenstift'') from 1572 to 1923.<br />
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==Buildings==<br />
The former abbey building complex is now dominated by the church, which was built between 1844 and 1849 to plans by [[Friedrich Wilhelm Buttel]]. These included a 52-metre high brick tower, after the addition of which it was thought necessary to refurbish the [[nave]] for aesthetic reasons. Before 1844 the church was a simple stone building.<br />
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After a fire in 1888 the church was rebuilt in a [[Gothic Revival]] between 1888 and 1890 according to plans by [[Georg Daniel]].<br />
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Of the old abbey buildings there still exist the [[cloister]], as well as some ancillary buildings now used for residential purposes.<br />
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==Mecklenburgisches Orgelmuseum==<br />
In the abbey church and the nearby [[organ (music)|organ]] courtyard is a permanent exhibition relating to the history of organ-building in [[Mecklenburg]]. The Mecklenburg Organ Museum (''Mecklenburgisches Orgelmuseum'') is the first of its sort in the new ''[[States of Germany|Bundesländer]]''. In the abbey church itself there is an organ by [[Friedrich Friese]] III.<br />
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==Garden==<br />
The abbey complex also includes the ''Engelsche Garten'', laid out by, and named after, Johann Jacob Christian Engel (1762–1840), master of the abbey kitchen from 1786 to 1818. It was not completed until 1855/56.<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[List of music museums]]<br />
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==Sources==<br />
* [http://www.orgelmuseum-malchow.de/ Mecklenburgisches Orgelmuseum in Kloster Malchow] {{in lang|de}}<br />
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