The St. Michael is one of the main churches in the Hanseatic city of Lüneburg . The impressive monastery church of the former Benedictine monastery of St. Michael was located here in the 14th Century . Otto I the Great 956 admits the monastery St. Michaelis in Lüneburg customs revenue from the sale of saline to . This is the oldest document of which the church and the monastery testifies while the oldest evidence of the town of Lüneburg . Even then formed the salt deposits of the wealth of the city . The Michaeliskloster stood as a home monastery on the limestone mountain in the castle of Bill Unger. The limestone is the only major survey across the surroundings . The church at that time was princely burial ground. In the late 10th Century the Benedictine rules were adopted by the Convention .\n\n This resulted in more and more into conflict with the rulers in 1371 which then resulted in the storming and destruction of the castle . The monastery of St. Michael got close to its new location within the city walls and was rebuilt.\n\n 1655, the Evangelical Covenant was dissolved. The monastery and its associated schools and the Knights Academy and the Civil Michaelis School were still further to 1850 . Until then also the title of abbot of St. remained Michael and Lord of the house of St. Michael get . This contributed from 1673 onwards the landscape Directors of Lüneburg landscape . The assets of the monastery together with the church fell into the Hanoverian Monastery Fund in lifting 1850.