Collegiate Church

Wetter Abbey is a former canoness abbey and, overlooking the valley of the Wetschaft River, is elevated on what is now Klosterberg in the center of the small Hessian town of Wetter in the district of Marburg-Biedenkopf.

It was founded according to a local tradition and supported by archaeological evidence probably at the beginning of the 11th century. For a long time, the monastery was a point of conflict between the archbishopric of Mainz and the landgraves of Hesse. In the 15th century the landgraves prevailed. Due to the poor state of preservation, the internal history of the monastery can only be traced in fragments. After the Reformation after 1526/27 the monastery was abolished. Since the Middle Ages a school was connected with the monastery, which continued to exist after the Reformation. The former monastery grounds also included a residential building for the priests, the so-called Vierherrenhof, an early Mass church and residential and farm buildings for the ladies of the monastery. The early Gothic church of the former monastery now serves as the Lutheran parish church of the Wetter parish with the villages of Wetter, Niederwetter and Todenhausen.