Drübeck is a village and a former municipality in the
district of Harz, in
Saxony-Anhalt,
Germany. Since 1 July 2009, it is part of the town
Ilsenburg.
Abbey
It is the site of a former monastery of nuns of the
Order of Saint Benedict, first mentioned as ''Drubechi'' ("Three Brooks") in a 960 deed by
Emperor Otto I. At this time, the
Romanesque abbey church was built, today a landmark at the Romanesque tourist route (''Straße der Romanik'') of Saxony-Anhalt. After the monastery became extinct in the
Thirty Years' War, the estates were acquired by the Counts of
Stolberg-Wernigerode
The County of Stolberg-Wernigerode (german: Grafschaft Stolberg-Wernigerode) was a county of the Holy Roman Empire located in the Harz region around Wernigerode, now part of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It was ruled by a branch of the House of Stolberg. ...
, who established a
Protestant congregation of
canonesses here in 1732, now a conference centre of the
Evangelical Church of the Church Province of Saxony.
Former municipalities in Saxony-Anhalt
Ilsenburg
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