Hofgut Retters in Kelkheim, Estate and former Premonstratensian monastery in Fischbach, Kelkheim, Germany

Hofgut Retters is a farm estate about two kilometres northeast of Fischbach in the Vordertaunus, on the edge of the Retterswald. Its white gatehouse has a red tiled roof, a slate cupola with a spire, a mural inscribed "NON DOLO SED VI" and a band of small relief panels above the arch. The site goes back to a Premonstratensian nunnery; the inn "Zum fröhlichen Landmann" stands on the grounds.

Around 1136 choir nuns from Steinbach in the Westerwald settled here; in 1146 Count Gerhard of Nürings donated the lands of Retters to found a monastery. A 1245 charter names an Augustinian house, and from 1272 Premonstratensians are documented; after about 1200 it was a nunnery for women of lower nobility. Nuns lived here until 1559, after which changing owners ran the estate as a farm.

The name Retters derives from "Rat Gottes" (Council of God), Latin Consilium Dei. The former Premonstratensian nunnery, founded in 1146 by Count Gerhard of Nürings, became a farmstead after 1559. Today the estate is still farmed and serves as a regional excursion destination, with the inn "Zum fröhlichen Landmann" on site.

The estate lies about two kilometres northeast of Fischbach's centre, on the edge of the Retterswald. A large car park is reached from the B 455 between Fischbach and Schneidhain, where bus lines 263 and 815 stop. Several hiking trails cross the grounds, and the inn "Zum fröhlichen Landmann" stands on the site.

The gatehouse mural bears the Latin motto "NON DOLO SED VI" (not by cunning but by force), above a band of small sculpted relief panels. The name Retters derives from Rat Gottes, Latin Consilium Dei, "counsel of God".