This community was founded in 1125 by Augustinian canons. In 1259 it was taken over by Cistercian monks from Isenhagen. In 1259 the community was transferred to Backenrode, then to Marienrode, where it remained until dissolution in 1806. In 1986-88 the monastery and church was renovated and resettled by Benedictine nuns from the abbey of S. Hildegard in Rudesheim-Eibingen.

The Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz in Berlin preserves two manuscripts belonging to this house, #Germ. 2o847(1) and Germ 4o835(1). The Landesbibliothek in Hannover contains a manuscript "Super epp. Pauli" dating from the sixteenth century, which belonged to this house, #I 20 a. It alsoc contains three other manuscripts from this community, #I 84 a(1), I 189a.(1), and I 195 a.(1). It preserves a manuscript "About the Lives of Monks," dating from the fifteenth century, which belonged to this house, #I 251 a., and a Diplomatar. Marienrodense (15th c.), #XXIII 767. A miscellaneous (astronomical?) dating from the twelfth century, may have belonged to this community as well, #IV 394. The Herzog-August-Bibliothek in Wolfenbuttel possesses a fragmentary Calendar which may have belonged to this house as well, #Novi 404.2 (12).

Further research necessary.

This was not a female community until the twentieth century.