Kloster Kemnade, Benedictine monastery in Bodenwerder, Germany.

Kloster Kemnade is a former monastery in Kemnade, now part of Bodenwerder. Only the Romanesque church of St. Mary, consecrated in 1046, survives, built of local red sandstone as a three-aisled pillar basilica with a flat wooden ceiling and later Gothic windows. A heavily altered building serves as a residence, and remains of St. Dionysius church stand to the north.

Kloster Kemnade was founded around 960 by the sisters Frederuna and Irma, daughters of the Billung count Wichmann, with Frederuna as first abbess. In 1147 Conrad III gave Kemnade to the Benedictine abbey of Corvey, and it housed monks until 1168, then stood empty for 25 years. The monastery was dissolved in 1542; a Reichskammergericht ruling returned it to Corvey in 1592.

The name Kemnade comes from the caminata, the heated room of the nuns' quarters, which also gave the village its name. In the church, the family vault holds the "Lügenbaron" von Münchhausen, marked by a simple gravestone, and the sarcophagus of Count Siegfried von Homburg, who died in 1380, survives.

The monastery is open to visitors who can walk through the grounds and explore the buildings at their own pace. Plan your visit during daylight hours to properly see the structures and appreciate the setting along the valley.

The monastery sits near the birthplace of Baron von Münchhausen, whose tall tales and legends have shaped local storytelling for centuries. Today, seasonal events and concerts connect the monastery's medieval past with contemporary cultural life in the region.