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Extract from the Lehnin Travel Guides:
About 20km southeast of Brandenburg, and equally accessible from Potsdam, the time-warp village of
LEHNIN
clusters round its huge
Kloster
(May-Oct Mon-Sat 9am-5pm, Sun 11am-5pm;
www.stift-lehnin.de
; DM6/?3), which was founded in 1180 by Cistercian monks on what was then a swampy marsh deep in a forest populated mainly by heathen and hostile Slavs. Despite many vicissitudes, the
Klosterkirche
survives intact and offers a graphic illustration of the way the Romanesque style of the east end - the first part to be built - had given way to the Gothic by the time the building was compl...
read the whole Lehnin Travel Guides...
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