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Carolingian Westwork and Civitas Corvey

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Imperial Abbey of Corvey

The Imperial Abbey of Corvey (German: Stift Corvey or German: Fürstabtei Corvey) was a Benedictine monastery on the River Weser, 2 km northeast of Höxter, now in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. As such, it was one of the reichsunmittelbare abbeys of the Holy Roman Empire from the late Middle Ages to 1792. In 2014, the abbey was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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