Origin from 1199
Eldena Abbey was a Cistercian monastery founded in 1199 near what is now Greifswald in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, when Jaromar I, Prince of Rugia, offered the site to monks resettling from Dargun Abbey; Pope Innocent III confirmed the foundation in 1204. Originally known as Hilda Abbey, the community grew wealthy on the regional salt trade and played a significant part in the Christianization of Western Pomerania, and its trading settlement grew into the town of Greifswald. The abbey was dissolved in 1535 during the Protestant Reformation and was further damaged during the Thirty Years' War, after which it fell into ruin. Its picturesque remains became a favorite subject of the Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich's paintings, most famously Abbey in the Oak Forest, and the ruins have undergone restoration since 1828 with scientific excavation carried out in 1926 and 1927.
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