La chiesa abbaziale di Werden, distrutta da un incendio nel 1256, venne ricostruita in stile tardo-romanico (1256 - 75). ###>On 22 May 877, under Hildigrim II, the monastery, which up to that time had been the property of the family of Saint Ludger, obtained, Imperial immediacy, which amounted to the right of free abbatical election and immunity.