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In 1556 Himmelpforten's then Lutheran Provost Segebade II von der Hude appointed the first Lutheran pastor, Peter Schlichting, in Himmelpforten.

When in the mid of the 16th c. the majority of the population in the Prince-Archbishopric adopted Lutheranism, the function of the nunnery, to provide sustenance for unmarried women, wasn't to be given up.

So the formerly Roman Catholic nunnery of Himmelpforten with its estates turned into a Lutheran foundation (, more particular: Damenstift, literally in ).