Founded in 1172 as a Benedictine convent and converted at the Reformation into a Lutheran women's foundation, Lüne Abbey is one of six convents of the Heideklöster that still operate as residential communities under their own abbess. It sits about a kilometre and a half north of the old town, in calm gardens beside the Lüne mill stream.
The reason to visit is the Textile Museum housed in the old refectory, with one of the most important collections of late-medieval embroidery in Europe — devotional cloths, processional banners, vestments, and the famous "Lüne tapestries" worked by the nuns themselves between 1492 and 1517. The cloister, with its delicate brick vaulting and stained-glass windows, can be visited on a guided tour. The community of around fifteen women still lives here and the dormitory wing is closed to visitors. Entry through the main gate on Am Domänenhof.