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    The Ebstorf Map was an example of a mappa mundi (a medieval European map of the world). It was made by Gervase of Ebstorf, who was possibly the same man...
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    (16 mi) south of Lüneburg. Ebstorf was the seat of the former Samtgemeinde (lit. 'collective municipality') Altes Amt Ebstorf. Ebstorf Map "LSN-Online Regionaldatenbank...
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    elaborate wall maps, the largest of which to survive to modern times, the Ebstorf map, was around 3.5 m (11 ft 6 in) in diameter. The term derives from the...
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  • Amt Ebstorf. The Samtgemeinde Bevensen-Ebstorf consists of the following municipalities: Altenmedingen Bad Bevensen1, 2 Barum Emmendorf Ebstorf Hanstedt...
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  • Ebstorf Abbey (German: Abtei Ebstorf or German: Kloster Ebstorf) is a Lutheran convent of nuns that is located near the Lower Saxon town of Uelzen, in...
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  • where he became provost of Ebstorf. He later died there. It is apparent that his work was known to the authors of the Ebstorf world map (c. 1234–40). It...
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  • near Negenborn and Loccum Abbey in Rehburg-Loccum) and convents (such as Ebstorf Abbey near the town of Uelzen and Bursfelde Abbey in Bursfelde) adopted...
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  • Altes Amt Ebstorf is a former Samtgemeinde (lit. 'collective municipality') in the district of Uelzen, in Lower Saxony, Germany. Its seat was in the village...
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    Gervase of Ebstorf (fl. 1234-1240) is best known as the author of the Ebstorf Map, a medieval mappa mundi created between 1234 and 1240. He may or may...
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    near Negenborn and Loccum Abbey in Rehburg-Loccum) and convents (such as Ebstorf Abbey near the town of Uelzen and Bursfelde Abbey in Bursfelde) adopted...
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    About 1160 of his relics were translated by the Dannenberg counts to Ebstorf Abbey near Uelzen, which from the 14th century was defined as the place...
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    The Battle of Lüneburg Heath (also called the Battle of Ebstorf) was a conflict between the army of King Louis the Younger and the Norse Great Heathen...
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    Bevensen is the seat of the Samtgemeinde ("collective municipality") Bevensen-Ebstorf. Incorporated into the municipality are the villages of Gollern, Groß Hesebeck...
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    it was moved to a dedicated building in 1996. A larger mappa mundi, the Ebstorf Map, was destroyed by Allied bombing in 1943, though photographs of it...
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  • part of the African continent. The Ebstorf Map was an example of a European mappa mundi, made by Gervase of Ebstorf, who was possibly the same man as Gervase...
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    653 §1 CIC can. 648, §2,3 Histories, Medieval (8 August 2014). "Kloster Ebstorf". Medieval Histories. Retrieved 20 November 2017. The monastery is mentioned...
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    fertile, but on the other hand it is full of beasts and serpents.") The Ebstorf map (13th century) has a dragon in the extreme south-eastern part of Africa...
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    Anglo-Saxon mappa mundi (the Cotton map or Cottoniana, c. 1025‒50), the Ebstorf Map (c. 1240), the Chronica Majora (c. 1240–1253), the Psalter world map...
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  • combatants killed in the winter of 880 CE at the Battle of Lüneburg Heath near Ebstorf, Lower Saxony. They were subsequently declared martyrs by the church, with...
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    fresh water, and the birds sang sweetly in the trees. In Planiferio de Ebstorf of 1234, Marcos Martinez referred to "the lost island discovered by St...
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  • The coat of arms displays: three crosses, symbolising the monasteries of Ebstorf, Oldenstadt and Medingen the heraldic lion from the arms of Brunswick-Lüneburg...
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  • Widukind. Lothar was one of the twelve counts killed in the Battle of Ebstorf (also called the Battle of Lüneburg Heath) which pitted the army of Louis...
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    near Negenborn and Loccum Abbey in Rehburg-Loccum) and convents (such as Ebstorf Abbey near the town of Uelzen and Bursfelde Abbey in Bursfelde) adopted...
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    between the 12th and 15th centuries. The peak of this awareness marked the Ebstorf map of c. 1300. The legend concerning Nubia reads: “The people who live...
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  • reform, the Samtgemeinden Bevensen and Altes Amt Ebstorf merged to form the new Samtgemeinde Bevensen-Ebstorf. The Bevensen Samtgemeinde consisted of the following...
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  • Anglo-Norman royal official and sheriff Gervase of Ebstorf (fl. 1234-1240), author of the Ebstorf Map created c. 1234; possibly the same man as Gervase...
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    de/titel/58165.html Passion und Ostern in den Lüneburger Klöstern, Ebstorf: Verlag Kloster Ebstorf, 2010 (ed.) Titanic: Das Schiff - der Untergang - die Legenden...
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  • Stade, Lothar I, who was killed by the Great Heathen Army in the Battle of Ebstorf, and was recognized as one of the Martyrs of Ebsdorf by the Catholic Church...
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    a 15th century manuscript of Virginal (V7) in the monastery library at Ebstorf in Lower Saxony and the Hessen State Archives in Marburg, together with...
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  • died 1699) was a German clergyman and superintendent in Ebstorf. He worked as a clergyman in Ebstorf from 1671 to 1699, and as superintendent from 1678 at...
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