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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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    25 km south of Lüneburg. Ebstorf was the seat of the former Samtgemeinde ("collective municipality") Altes Amt Ebstorf. Ebstorf Map "LSN-Online Regionaldatenbank...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • Ebstorf merged to form the new Samtgemeinde Bevensen-Ebstorf. The Samtgemeinde Altes Amt Ebstorf consisted of the following municipalities: Ebstorf Hanstedt...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • martyrs killed in the winter of 880 AD at the Battle of Lüneburg Heath near Ebstorf, Saxony. Their feast day is 2 February. The Martyrs consisted of four bishops...
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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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  • 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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    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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    Rule of Saint Benedict, LVIII CIC can. 653 §1 CIC can. 648, §2,3 "Kloster Ebstorf". Medieval Histories. 8 August 2014. Retrieved 20 November 2017. The monastery...
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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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    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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    Country Germany State Lower Saxony District Uelzen Municipal assoc. Bevensen-Ebstorf Subdivisions 4 Government  • Mayor Gustav Müller (SPD) Area  • Total 31...
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    provided some women a life in academic study. However, some convents (such as Ebstorf Abbey near the town of Uelzen and Bursfelde Abbey in Bursfelde) adopted...
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    Area of the world known in the 14th century on the Ebstorf world map around 1300...
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    5807 Altenmedingen 581 Uelzen 582 5820 Suhlendorf 5821 Bad Bevensen 5822 Ebstorf 5823 Bienenbüttel 5824 Bad Bodenteich 5825 Wieren 5826 Suderburg 5827 Unterlüß...
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  • Enckhausen, also Johann Enckhausen and Johann Enckhusen, (born 1676 in Ebstorf; died 1758). was a German Evangelical Clergyman and Superintendent. In...
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