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DEU Saxony Klosterbuch Buch Monastery is a former Cistercian monastery founded as St. Mary's Monastery in the 12th century. After the Reformation, it and its lands became a purely agricultural farm

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Photo12/imageBROKER/Sylvio Dittrich

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BRK24F15_164

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