Site
The complex still gives a remarkably coherent impression of a medieval monastery. The centre consists of the former abbey church, today’s conventual church, together with the adjacent cloister buildings. To the west of it, in the chapel of the Holy Sepulchre with its imposing stepped gables and neo-Gothic painting, there is a 13th century site of a Holy Sepulchre. The canons’ house, agricultural and administrative buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries complete the complex in an impressive way.
Location
Heiligengrabe is situated in the east of the Prignitz region, a historic landscape between Berlin and Hamburg. The diversity of the landscape ranges from the biosphere reserve of the Elbe river landscape in the west to one of the largest heathlands in Europe, the Kyritz-Ruppiner Heide, in the east. Quaint villages, medieval towns, a diverse range of museums, churches and monasteries invite you to make cultural discoveries. Numerous bicycle trails make the region a paradise for tourists.
Highlights
To the west of the abbey church is the chapel of the Holy Sepulchre. The imposing aisleless church building, which was completed in 1520 on the site of two previous buildings, at its end faces has richly designed stepped gables. The interior of the four-bayed hall is structured by buttresses that support a stellar vault. The neo-Gothic painting was carried out in 1903/04. In 1986, a burial vault was uncovered under the floor, which was probably already constructed as a Holy Sepulchre at the time of the foundation of the monastery.
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