Kloster Friedland, Cistercian monastery in Altfriedland, Germany.

Kloster Friedland is a Cistercian monastery in Neuhardenberg with several medieval buildings including a Gothic church, cloister, refectory, and west wing. The complex sits between Kloster See and Kietzer See lakes and displays the typical layout of a period monastery.

Founded around 1230 as a Cistercian nunnery under the name Vredeland, the abbey was first documented in 1271 and served as a house monastery for Barnim nobility. It held ten villages, twenty individual estates and eight lakes. After secularisation in 1540 the estates were confiscated and converted into a representative manor.

The nuns' duties included care of the elderly and sick, running a hostel and trade; lay sisters did the heavier work in kitchen, garden, hospital and guesthouse, while male conversi worked the fields and workshops. The convent's pointed oval seal showed a lamb with a cross. The site is now an Evangelical village church.

The church and the remains of the refectory and cloister stand on a peninsula between Klostersee and Kietzer See, at the northeastern edge of the Märkische Schweiz nature park. The church is still used for Protestant services, so time your visit outside worship. The refectory survives only as a ruin.

Only the ruin of the refectory, traces of a cloister and the nave of the early Gothic fieldstone church survive from the monastery; the church is still used as the Protestant village church. The site, together with Chorin, is considered one of the most architecturally significant medieval monastery complexes in the region.