title: Knechtsteden Abbey
text: # Knechtsteden Abbey
  
  Knechsteden Abbey (German: Kloster Knechtsteden) is a former Premonstratensian abbey in Dormagen in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, since the 1890s a house of the Spiritans. It was founded in 1130, and in 1138 building began on the church, which was created a basilica minor in 1974.
  
  51°04′37″N 6°45′09″E﻿ / ﻿51.077°N 6.7525°E﻿ / 51.077; 6.7525
  
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