Ehemaliges Zisterzienserinnenkloster, Uckermark Lakes Nature Park

Boitzenburg Monastery Ruin is the ruin of a Cistercian monastery destroyed during the Thirty Years' War. The ruin is located on the eastern edge of the village of Boitzenburg, which is about 20 km west of Prenzlau and about 80 km north of Berlin in the Uckermark region.

The monastery was founded in 1271 by Margraves Johann II. Otto IV and Konrad von Brandenburg and endowed with extensive property. Construction took place at about the same time as the establishment of Chorin Monastery. In 1281, the monastery was united with Flieth Monastery. During the Reformation, the monastery was secularized in 1536, but remained as a building. In 1538 the bailiff of the Uckermark, Hans von Arnim, received the monastery property as a fief and granted the remaining nuns lifelong residential rights. In the course of the Thirty Years' War, the complex was destroyed by Danish troops in 1637 and never rebuilt. In the following centuries, the building fabric continued to decay. Until 1945, the ruin and the surrounding land remained in the possession of the von Arnim family.

Today the ruin is secured, protected from further decay and freely accessible. In the years 2005 to 2012 it served as a backdrop for the performances of the Theater Klosterruine Boitzenburg in the summer.