Bad Doberan

Bad Doberan is a metropolis inside the district of Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It changed into the capital of the former district of Bad Doberan. In 2012, its populace become eleven,427. Bad Doberan was documented in 1177 as villa Slavica Doberan, however as early as 1171 Cistercian priests from Amelungsborn Abbey in the Weser Uplands based a monastery within the Althof 3 kilometres southeast of the town, now a suburb of Bad Doberan. In 1179, these monasteries had been in large part destroyed in a Slavic uprising. Seven years later, the Cistercians made a 2nd attempt to observed a monastery on the website online of latest abbey.

The Romanesque abbey church, devoted in 1232, was replaced by way of a excessive Gothic church after the hearth of 1291, the construction of which probably started out in 1295, with the final components of the Romanesque church being incorporated into the brand new constructing. The Gothic church turned into consecrated in 1368. The Doberan Abbey have become very rich because of its monetary sports is and had a big estate. Until the dissolution of the monasteries at some point of the Reformation in 1552, it formed the improvement of the village of Doberan.