Qualla: Liesborn Abbey https://qualla.com/liesborn-abbey en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:34 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Liesborn Abbey https://qualla.com/liesborn-abbey Liesborn Abbey: Introduction https://qualla.com/liesborn-abbey/ In 1807, under French administration, the paintings were sold for almost nothing. They had been the pride of the abbey for three hundred years: an enormous altarpiece commissioned by Abbot Heinrich of Cleves around 1465, painted by an artist whose name has never been recovered. We call him the Master of Liesborn for lack of anything better. His panels are some of the great masterpieces of late medieval German painting. Today the best of them hang in the National Gallery in London, two trains and a Channel away from the quiet Westphalian village where they were made.

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]]> Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/j/y/liesborn-abbey-wp/u1jy-liesborn-abbey-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Liesborn Abbey: Charlemagne or Bozo and Bardo https://qualla.com/liesborn-abbey/ Tradition gives the founding to Charlemagne in 785 - the kind of pious attribution that medieval houses liked because emperors made better patron saints than the actual founders. The real date is probably 815, and the real founders were probably two men named Bozo and Bardo, who ...

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]]> Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/j/y/liesborn-abbey-wp/u1jy-liesborn-abbey-charlemagne-or-bozo-and-bardo.mp3 0:06 2 full Liesborn Abbey: Wealthy and Worldly https://qualla.com/liesborn-abbey/ From the 13th century onward, Liesborn followed the path so many German abbeys followed: it got rich, and ascetic life slid downhill. By 1298 the abbey's property had been divided into twenty-two full prebends for nobly born canons and another six for boys - effectively convertin...

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]]> Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/j/y/liesborn-abbey-wp/u1jy-liesborn-abbey-wealthy-and-worldly.mp3 0:06 3 full Liesborn Abbey: The Master of Liesborn https://qualla.com/liesborn-abbey/ Abbot Heinrich also commissioned the altarpiece that would make his abbey famous five centuries later. Painted around 1465 by an anonymous Westphalian master, it was a vast multi-panel work centred on a Crucifixion and surrounded by scenes from the life of Christ, the Virgin, and...

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]]> Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/j/y/liesborn-abbey-wp/u1jy-liesborn-abbey-the-master-of-liesborn.mp3 0:06 4 full Liesborn Abbey: Dispersed https://qualla.com/liesborn-abbey/ The good century did not last. Abbot Anton Kalthoff (1522-32) embraced Anabaptist doctrines and was deposed. Gerlach Westhof (1554-82) tilted Protestant and ran the monastery deep into debt. The Thirty Years' War and the wars of the 18th century ground the finances further down, ...

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]]> Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/j/y/liesborn-abbey-wp/u1jy-liesborn-abbey-dispersed.mp3 0:06 5 full Liesborn Abbey: What Remains in Liesborn https://qualla.com/liesborn-abbey/ The Gothic church, rebuilt between 1499 and 1506 under Abbot Smalebecker's reform program, is still standing. Several of the monastic buildings are still standing. The village of Liesborn, now part of the municipality of Wadersloh in the district of Warendorf, has a small but ear...

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