Reichenau Abbey was a Benedictine monastery on Reichenau Island (known in Latin as Augia Dives). It was founded in 724 by the itinerant Saint Pirmin, who...
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island's three churches and abbey, Reichenau was declared a World Heritage Site in 2000. Although people occupied Reichenau in the Bronze Age and Iron...
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Bán" is an Old Irish poem written in about the 9th century at or near Reichenau Abbey, in what is now Germany, by an Irish monk about his cat. Pangur Bán...
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municipality encompasses the estates of the former Reichenau Abbey, which was secularized in 1757. Today Reichenau is characterized by the market gardening of...
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Berthold of Reichenau (died probably in 1088) was a Benedictine monk and chronicler of Reichenau Abbey. Berthold was a disciple and friend of Hermannus...
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Reichenau may refer to: Reichenau Island, a German island in Lake Constance Reichenau Abbey, a former Benedictine monastery on the island Reichenau, Baden-Württemberg...
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independently in several places, in the Reichenau Abbey up to 939 (continued by Hermannus Contractus), in Abbey of Saint Gall up to 926. The St. Gallen...
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is a Roman Catholic church. It is part of Reichenau Abbey founded in 724, located on the island of Reichenau on Lake Constance in southern Germany. The...
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until the year 500. The name originates from the Benedictine Abbey of Reichenau on Reichenau Island in Lake Constance which owned properties in this area...
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representing the Dormition of the Virgin. Produced at the monastery at Reichenau Abbey in about 1000 CE, the manuscript is an example of the highest quality...
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Fraumünster (redirect from Fraumünster Abbey)
Minster) is a church in Zürich which was built on the remains of a former abbey for aristocratic women which was founded in 853 by Louis the German for...
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happened to other rulers deposed by Charlemagne. He tried to identify Reichenau Abbey as a likely location where Widukind may have spent the rest of his...
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abbot of Reichenau Abbey from 806. Haito was born in 764. At the age of five, along with his brother Wadilcoz, he entered the Abbey of Reichenau, on an...
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descends from a Berthold who was the joint founder, with Hnabi, of Reichenau Abbey in 724. His most famous descendant was Cadolah, Duke of Friuli, who...
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1000 and 1020. The Bamberg Apocalypse was created at the scriptorium at Reichenau. The theme of this illuminated manuscript is the Apocalypse and commentaries...
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making it difficult to use them in navigation. Herman Contractus of Reichenau Abbey, examined the use of the astrolabe in Mensura Astrolai during the 11th...
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Blessed Hermann of Reichenau or Herman the Cripple (18 July 1013 – 24 September 1054), also known by other names, was an 11th-century Benedictine monk...
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largest is the island of Reichenau in the Untersee, which belongs to the municipality of Reichenau. The former abbey of Reichenau is a UNESCO World Heritage...
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the Imperial Crown was probably made for Otto I in the workshops of Reichenau Abbey. Freed, John B. (2016). Frederick Barbarossa: The Prince and the Myth...
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Bishopric of Constance which had recently acquired jurisdiction over the Abbey of Reichenau on Lake Constance. It was not until Emperor Louis the Pious (ruled...
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Tajal Chan Ahk, 8th-century Otto III from the Gospels of Otto III, Reichenau Abbey in southern Germany, late 10th or early 11th century Last Judgement...
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Castle New Castle (Meersburg) Petershausen Abbey Reichenau Abbey Seeburg Castle Wettingen-Mehrerau Abbey Touristic Bregenzer Festspiele Pile Dwellings...
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Castle New Castle (Meersburg) Petershausen Abbey Reichenau Abbey Seeburg Castle Wettingen-Mehrerau Abbey Touristic Bregenzer Festspiele Pile Dwellings...
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Following a dispute with Konrad of Homberg-Markdorf and the Abbot Eberhard of Reichenau, he was killed by soldiers while in his palace in Constance. Over the...
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Saint Kilian, Arbogast, Landelin, Trudpert, Pirmin (founded Reichenau abbey), Saint Gall (Abbey of St. Gall), Corbinian, Emmeram and Rupert of Salzburg....
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d'Alsace. The founder of the abbey, Count Eberhard, brother of Luitfrid of the Etichonids, brought Bishop Pirmin from Reichenau Abbey on Lake Constance to build...
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and his older brother was Rupert Baron von Aargau. He entered the Abbey of Reichenau in 784 under Abbot Peter, brother of Hildegard, Charlemagne's second...
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Ottonian art (redirect from Reichenau School)
Indeed, the paintings are one of the foundations of the case for Reichenau Abbey as a major centre of manuscript painting. Very little wood carving...
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Princely abbeys (German: Fürstabtei, Fürststift) and Imperial abbeys (German: Reichsabtei, Reichskloster, Reichsstift, Reichsgotthaus) were religious...
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The Silvae were rediscovered by Poggio Bracciolini in the Library of Reichenau Abbey around 1417, along with the Punica of Silius Italicus. The Silvae were...
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