Neumünster Abbey

Neumünster Abbey in Luxembourg has a long and extremely colourful history behind it. The monastery was built in 1606, after the previous monastery was destroyed in 1542. The new Benedictine monastery was named "Neumünster". A few years later, a marble tomb was also built, where the bones of John the Blind were stored.

Since then, the monastery has been destroyed and rebuilt several times after war and sieges. In 1796, the monastery was secularized by law, and then used for very different purposes: prison, soldiers' barracks and even an orphanage, before a gunpowder explosion put an end to it in 1807.

In recent times, the monastery was again used as a prison, e.g. the German occupying power chose to lock up political opponents here during World War II. Today, the picture is somewhat different: the renovated monastery is a cultural center for concerts, film screenings, festivals and events. You can find out more about the monastery's changing history on guided tours, and on the monastery's website you can see the large selection of current events in the annual programme.