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Nonnenwerth is an island near Bad Honnef
Bad Honnef

Bad Honnef is a spa town in Germany near Bonn in the Rhein-Sieg district, North Rhine-Westphalia. It is located on the border of the neighbouring state Rhineland-Palatinate....
 in the Rhine
Rhine

File:Swiss Grand Canyon.jpgThe Rhine is one of the longest and most important rivers in Europe, at , with an average discharge of more than ....
, administratively part of Remagen
Remagen

Remagen is a town in Germany in Rhineland-Palatinate, in the district of Ahrweiler. It is about a one hour's drive from Cologne , just south of Bonn, the former West-German capital....
 in Rhineland-Palatinate
Rhineland-Palatinate

Rhineland-Palatinate is one of the 16 States of Germany of Germany. It has an area of and about four million inhabitants. The capital is Mainz....
.

island is mainly known as the site of a Benedictine nunnery, later a Franciscan convent.

e was a Benedictine nunnery here from its foundation in 1126, by Archbishop Frederick I of Cologne
Archbishopric of Cologne

The Electorate of Cologne was an ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire and existed from the 10th to the early 19th century. It consisted of the temporal possessions of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cologne ....
 and Abbot Kuno of Siegburg
Siegburg

Siegburg is a city in the district of Rhein-Sieg-Kreis, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located on the banks of the rivers Sieg and Agger River, 10 kilometres away from the former capital Bonn and 26 kilometres away from Cologne....
. In 1465 it joined the reform movement of the Bursfelde Congregation
Bursfelde Congregation

The Bursfelde Congregation or Bursfelde Union was a union of predominantly west and central Germany Benedictine Order monasteries and nunneries working for the reform of Benedictine practice....
, but was severely damaged in 1477 during hostilities with Burgundy
Burgundy

Burgundy is a region historically situated in modern-day France and Switzerland....
.






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Nonnenwerth is an island near Bad Honnef
Bad Honnef

Bad Honnef is a spa town in Germany near Bonn in the Rhein-Sieg district, North Rhine-Westphalia. It is located on the border of the neighbouring state Rhineland-Palatinate....
 in the Rhine
Rhine

File:Swiss Grand Canyon.jpgThe Rhine is one of the longest and most important rivers in Europe, at , with an average discharge of more than ....
, administratively part of Remagen
Remagen

Remagen is a town in Germany in Rhineland-Palatinate, in the district of Ahrweiler. It is about a one hour's drive from Cologne , just south of Bonn, the former West-German capital....
 in Rhineland-Palatinate
Rhineland-Palatinate

Rhineland-Palatinate is one of the 16 States of Germany of Germany. It has an area of and about four million inhabitants. The capital is Mainz....
.

Religious houses

The island is mainly known as the site of a Benedictine nunnery, later a Franciscan convent.

First foundation

There was a Benedictine nunnery here from its foundation in 1126, by Archbishop Frederick I of Cologne
Archbishopric of Cologne

The Electorate of Cologne was an ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire and existed from the 10th to the early 19th century. It consisted of the temporal possessions of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cologne ....
 and Abbot Kuno of Siegburg
Siegburg

Siegburg is a city in the district of Rhein-Sieg-Kreis, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located on the banks of the rivers Sieg and Agger River, 10 kilometres away from the former capital Bonn and 26 kilometres away from Cologne....
. In 1465 it joined the reform movement of the Bursfelde Congregation
Bursfelde Congregation

The Bursfelde Congregation or Bursfelde Union was a union of predominantly west and central Germany Benedictine Order monasteries and nunneries working for the reform of Benedictine practice....
, but was severely damaged in 1477 during hostilities with Burgundy
Burgundy

Burgundy is a region historically situated in modern-day France and Switzerland....
. It also suffered greatly from marauding Swedish
Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
 troops in 1632, during the Thirty Years' War
Thirty Years' War

The Thirty Years' War was one of the most destructive conflicts in European history. The war was fought primarily in Germany and at various points involved most of the countries of Europe....
.

In 1773 it was destroyed by fire, and rebuilt in the Baroque
Baroque

In the the arts, the Baroque was a Western cultural Epoch , starting roughly at the beginning of the 17th century in Rome, Italy. It was exemplified by drama and grandeur in Baroque sculpture, Baroque painting, literature, Baroque dance, and Baroque music....
 style. In 1802 the nunnery was dissolved as part of the secularisation of ecclesiastical property. In 1821 the premises were sold by auction and used as an inn. This was visited by Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt was a Kingdom of Hungary composer, virtuoso pianist and teacher.Liszt became renowned throughout Europe for his great skill as a performer during the 19th century....
, who composed the piece "Die Zelle in Nonnenwerth" about it.

Second foundation

In 1854 the buildings were acquired by the Franciscans for a convent. During World War I
World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
 the sisters began to teach girls and a secondary school soon developed, still in operation.

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