Abbaye de Sterkrade, Cistercian monastery in Sterkrade, Oberhausen, Germany.

Sterkrade Abbey no longer exists as a building: nothing of the Cistercian convent founded in 1240 survives. Its site in Oberhausen-Sterkrade is now occupied by the third parish church of St. Clemens, built in 1953 after the 1872 church there was badly damaged on 24 March 1945 and later demolished.

Founded in 1240 as a daughter house of Duissern Abbey, the monastery moved to Sterkrade after Adolph von Holte provided his estate; his heiress Mechthild transferred the parish church, land, a mill and a fish pond. It joined the Cistercian order in 1271 under Kamp Abbey and held property in Sterkrade, Kirchhellen, Bottrop, Gladbeck and Mülheim. Destroyed in 1583 during the Truchsessian War, it was dissolved in 1809 and its lands sold by Prussia in 1816.

The monastery was dissolved in 1809 and none of its buildings survive; the site was sold to the Prussian state in 1816 and the Gutehoffnungshütte ironworks arose on the grounds. The former choir stalls went to St. Maximilian in Duisburg-Ruhrort. The Sterkrader Gnadenbild, a copy of Lucas Cranach the Elder's Mariahilf image, is still kept in Sterkrade and was the object of pilgrimage from 1738.

Nothing of the monastery itself survives: the grounds were sold in 1816 and became the Gute-Hoffnungs-Hütte ironworks. The site is marked today by the third parish church of St. Clemens, built in 1953 after its 1872 predecessor was wrecked on 24 March 1945. Look for the church on the old monastic plot in Sterkrade.

The pilgrimage image at Sterkrade was a copy of Lucas Cranach the Elder's Mariahilf, and it is still kept in Sterkrade today. The monastery itself was dissolved in 1809, so no monastic buildings survive; the site was later taken over by the Gutehoffnungshütte works.