Corvey Abbey or the Imperial Abbey of Corvey (German: Fürstabtei Corvey) was a Benedictine monastery on the River Weser, 2km northeast of Höxter, now in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in 815 on a site called Hethis by Charlemagne's cousins Wala and Adelard with monks from Corbie Abbey in Picardy, under the patronage of the Emperor Louis the Pious and the abbot of the older foundation, whence the new one derived its name (Latin: Corbeia nova). In 822 the monastery was reconstructed on the present-days site near the banks of the river Weser. It became "one of the most privileged Carolingian monastic sanctuaries in ninth-century Saxony" A mint was authorized as early as 833 though surviving coins date from the early eleventh century. The site of the abbey, where the east-west