Abbey and Altenmunster of Lorsch - UNESCO World Heritage Site
The UNESCO World Heritage site of the Abbey and Altenmunster of Lorsch is a large, ruined monastery complex in Lorsch, south-western Germany. Although most of the monastery was destroyed during religious wars of the 16th and 17th centuries, the enigmatic Konigshalle (King's Hall) has remained, largely untouched. Built for an unknown purpose and left entirely alone by marauding armies and rebuilding peasants, it's one of the only remaining examples of Carolingian architecture - and it dates from the 9th century!
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Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch (UNESCO/NHK)
The abbey, together with its monumental entrance, the famous 'Torhall', are rare architectural vestiges of the Carolingian era. The sculptures and paintings from this period are still in remarkably good condition.
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See what makes Germany's Lorsch Abbey so important
In this 360 video, come for a spin and discover Lorsch Abbey near Frankfurt in Germany. It's on the World Heritage List - and for good reason!
Lorsch Abbey in 60 secs | UNESCO World Heritage
Lorsch Abbey, a World Heritage Site since 1991, was one of the most influential seats of power in the Middle Ages. The so-called King's Hall is the Abbey's only extant building from the period of Carolingian rule, and one of the oldest post-Roman monuments in Germany.
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The Abbey of Lorsch is a former Imperial abbey in Lorsch, Germany, about 10 km east of Worms.It was one of the most renowned monasteries of the Carolingian Empire.Even in its ruined state, its remains are among the most important pre-Romanesque–Carolingian style buildings in Germany.Its chronicle, entered in the Lorscher Codex compiled in the 1170s is a fundamental document for early medieval German history.
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The Abbey of Lorsch is a former Imperial abbey in Lorsch, Germany, about 10 km east of Worms.
It was one of the most renowned monasteries of the Carolingian Empire.
Even in its ruined state, its remains are among the most important pre-Romanesque–Carolingian style buildings in Germany.
Its chronicle, entered in the Lorscher Codex compiled in the 1170s is a fundamental document for early medieval German history.
Another famous document from the monastic library is the Codex Aureus of Lorsch.
In 1991 the ruined abbey was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The abbey was founded in 764 by the Frankish Count Cancor and his widowed mother Williswinda as a proprietary church and monastery on their estate, Laurissa.
It was dedicated to Saint Peter and Saint Paul.
The founders entrusted its government to Cancor's nephew Chrodegang, Archbishop of Metz, who became its first abbot.
The pious founders enriched the new abbey by further donations.
To make the abbey popular as a shrine and a place of pilgrimage, Chrodegang obtained from Pope Paul I the body of Saint Nazarius, martyred at Rome with three companions under Diocletian.
In 1248 Premonstratensian monks from Allerheiligen were given charge of the monastery with the sanction of Pope Celestine IV.
During the Thirty Years' War Lorsch and its neighbourhood suffered greatly.
In 1621, Spanish troops pillaged the abbey and most of the buildings at Lorsch were pulled down.
After the Archbishopric of Mainz regained possession of it in 1623, the region was returned to the Catholic faith.
However, the abbey remained a ruin and served as a source of building materials for the whole region.
The most depressed period for Lorsch was during the wars of Louis XIV of France in the late 17th century.
Whole villages in the region were laid in ruins, the homes of the peasantry were burned, and the French soldiers torched the old abbey buildings.
One portion, which was left intact, served as a tobacco warehouse in the years before World War I.
The ancient entrance hall, the Königshalle or aula regia, built in the ninth century by King Louis II, is the oldest monument of Carolingian architecture.
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Carolingian abbey at Lorsch | Germany #5
In this episode, we visit the ruined abbey at Lorsch. It was one of the most renowned monasteries of the Carolingian Empire. The Lorsch Codex (Codex Laureshamensis), which was compiled in the abbey at the end of the 12th century, tells us a lot about the history of the abbey and the Carolingian realm. The abbey was largely destroyed by Spanish troops during the 30 Years War in 1621. What survives today is still worth a visit. The 1100-year-old gatehouse (Königshalle) is a well-conserved piece of Carolingian pre-romanesque architecture.
Königshalle des Klosters Lorsch 2010
Königshalle des Klosters Lorsch 2010
Lorsch leuchtet
Zwischen Rathaus und Benediktinerplatz und rund ums Museumszentrum bis hoch zum Platz am Pavillon zieht sich einmal mehr der malerischste Markt, den die Karolingerstadt im Jahr ausrichtet.
UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Germany
In 1972, UNESCO adopted the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World's Cultural and Natural Heritage of the World. The Convention is the most important international instrument for preserving cultural and natural sites for extraordinary universal value. Today, 44 of these sites are located in Germany, reflecting the diversity of the natural and cultural heritage of Germany.
UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Germany include:
UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Germany
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There are currently 44 UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Germany, which ranks 5th in the world for most world heritage sites. This includes 41 cultural sites and 3 natural sites.
Aachen Cathedral (1978)
Abbey and Altenmunster of Lorsch (1991)
Archaeological Border complex of Hedeby and the Danevirke (2018)
Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar and Dessau (1996)
Bergpark Wilhelmshohe (2013)
Berlin Modernist Housing Estates (2008)
Carolingian Westwork and Civitas Corvey (2014)
Castles of Augusturbug and Falkenlust at Bruhl (1984)
Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura (2017)
Classical Weimar (1998)
Collegiate Church, Castle and Old Town of Quedlinburg (1994)
Cologne Cathedral (1996)
Fagus Factory in Alfeld (2011)
Frontiers of the Roman Empire (1987)
Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Worlitz (2000)
Hanseatic City of Lubeck (1987)
Historic Centers of Stralsund and Wismar (2002)
Luther Memorials in Eisleben and Wittenberg (1996)
Margravial Opera House Bayreuth (2012)
Maulbronn Monastery Complex (1993)
Messel Pit Fossil Site (1995)
Mines of Rammelsberg, Historic Town of Goslar and Upper Harz Water Management System (1992)
Monastic Island of Reichenau (2000)
Museumsinsel (Museum Island), Berlin (1999)
Muskauer Park / Park Muzakowski (2004)
Naumburg Cathedral (2018)
Old town of Regensburg with Stadtamhof (2006)
Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin (1990)
Pilgrimage Church of Wies (1983)
Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps (2011)
Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and the Ancient Beech Forests of Germany (2007)
Roman Monuments, Cathedral of St Peter and Church of Our Lady in Trier (1986)
Speicherstadt and Kontorhous District (2015)
Speyer Cathedral (1981)
St Mary’s Cathedral and St Michael’s Church at Hildesheim (1985)
Town Hall and Roland on the Marketplace of Bremen (2004)
Town of Bamberg (1993)
The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement (2016)
Upper Middle Rhine Valley (2002)
Völklingen Ironworks (1994)
The Wadden Sea(2009)
Wartburg Castle (1999)
Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens and Residence Square (1981)
Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in Essen (2001)
Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz (UNESCO/NHK)
The Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz is an exceptional example of landscape design and planning of the Age of the Enlightenment, the 18th century. Its diverse components - outstanding buildings, landscaped parks and gardens in the English style, and subtly modified expanses of agricultural land - serve aesthetic, educational, and economic purposes in an exemplary manner.
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Kloster Lorsch Einmal von oben
Storks, Zusamzell, Altenmunster, Bavaria, Germany, Europe
Storks are large, long-legged, long-necked wading birds with long, stout bills. They belong to the family Ciconiidae. They are the only family in the biological order Ciconiiformes, which was once much larger and held a number of families. Storks occur in many regions of the world and tend to live in drier habitats than the related herons, spoonbills and ibises; they also lack the powder down that those groups use to clean off fish slime. Storks have no syrinx and are mute, giving no call; bill-clattering is an important mode of stork communication at the nest. Many species are migratory. Most storks eat frogs, fish, insects, earthworms, small birds and small mammals. There are 19 living species of storks in six genera. Various terms are used to refer to groups of storks, two frequently used ones being a muster of storks and a phalanx of storks. Storks tend to use soaring, gliding flight, which conserves energy. Soaring requires thermal air currents. Ottomar Anschütz's famous 1884 album of photographs of storks inspired the design of Otto Lilienthal's experimental gliders of the late 19th century. Storks are heavy, with wide wingspans: the Marabou Stork, with a wingspan of 3.2 m (10.5 ft), joins the Andean Condor in having the widest wingspan of all living land birds. Their nests are often very large and may be used for many years. Some nests have been known to grow to over 2 m (6 ft) in diameter and about 3 m (10 ft) in depth. Storks were once thought to be monogamous, but this is only partially true. They may change mates after migrations, and may migrate without a mate. They tend to be attached to nests as much as partners. Storks' size, serial monogamy, and faithfulness to an established nesting site contribute to their prominence in mythology and culture.
Maulbronn monastery, Germany monastery, Kloster Maulbronn
The monastery was founded in 1147 under the auspices of the first Cistercian pope, Eugenius III. The main church, built in a style transitional from Romanesque to Gothic, was consecrated in 1178 by Arnold, Bishop of Speyer. A number of other buildings — infirmary, refectory, cellar, auditorium, porch, south cloister, hall, another refectory, forge, inn, cooperage, mill, and chapel — followed in the course of the 13th century. The west, east and north cloisters date back to the 14th century, as do most fortifications and the fountain house or lavatorium.
After the Reformation broke out, Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg, seized the monastery in 1504,[dubious -- discuss] later building his hunting lodge and stables there. The monastery was pillaged repeatedly: first by the knights under Franz von Sickingen in 1519, then again during the German Peasants' War six years later. In 1534, Duke Ulrich secularised the monastery, but the Cistercians regained control — and Imperial recognition — under Charles V's Augsburg Interim. In 1556, Christoph, Duke of Württemberg, built a Protestant seminary, with Valentin Vannius becoming the first abbot two years later; Johannes Kepler studied there 1586--89.
In 1630, the abbey was returned to the Cistercians by force of arms, with Christoph Schaller von Sennheim becoming abbot. This restoration was short-lived, however, as Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden forced the monks to leave again two years later, with a Protestant abbot returning in 1633; the seminary reopened the following year, however the Cistercians under Schaller also returned in 1634. Under the Peace of Westphalia, in 1648, the confession of the monastery was settled in favour of Protestantism; with abbot Buchinger withdrawing in process. A Protestant abbacy was re-established in 1651, with the seminary reopening five years later. In 1692, the seminarians were removed to safety when Ezéchiel du Mas, Comte de Mélac, torched the school, which remained closed for a decade.
The abbey was secularised by Frederick I, King of Württemberg, in the course of the German Mediatisation in 1807, forever removing its political quasi-independence; the seminary merged with that of Bebenhausen the following year, now known as the Evangelical Seminaries of Maulbronn and Blaubeuren.
The monastery, which features prominently in Hermann Hesse's novel Beneath the Wheel, was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1993. The justification for the inscription was as follows: The Maulbronn complex is the most complete survival of a Cistercian monastic establishment in Europe, in particular because of the survival of its extensive water-management system of reservoirs and channels. Hesse himself attended the monastery before fleeing in 1891 after a suicide attempt, and a failed attempt to save Hesse from his personal religious crisis by a well-known theologian and faith healer.[1]
An image of Maulbronn Abbey is set to appear representing Baden-Württemberg on the obverse of the 2013 €2 commemorative coin for Germany.
Fantastic Place to Live and Work (Chinesisch) - UNESCO World-Heritage Bamberg
Dass Bamberg eine wunderschöne historische Stadt ist, UNESCO-Welterbe und Anziehungspunkt für Gäste aus aller Welt, dürfte hinlänglich bekannt sein. Aber Bamberg ist mehr: Nämlich ein fantastischer Ort zum Leben und Arbeiten. Dies zu vermitteln und den attraktiven Wirtschaftsstandort Bamberg vorzustellen, ist Ziel des neuen Imagefilms „Leben und Arbeiten in Bamberg.
Landschaftsarchitektur-Preis 2015: Weltkulturerbe Kloster Lorsch
Deutscher Landschaftsarchitektur-Preis 2015 für TOPOTEK 1 Gesellschaft von Landschaftsarchitekten: Eine Weltkulturerbestätte wird als topographische Abschrift nacherzählt. Der Entwurf von Topotek 1 und hg merz ging 2010 aus einem Wettbewerb zur szenographischen und landschaftsarchitektonischen Aufwertung des Ortes hervor.
Der Kerngedanke des Entwurfes für die Weltkulturerbestätte ist das Anschaulichmachen des Ortes als landschaftlicher Raum. Die Zielsetzung ist, die Klosteranlage jenseits der objekthaften Relikte zusammenhängend lesbar zu machen. Diese gestalterische Strategie ermöglicht es auch Gebäude und Einrichtungen späterer Zeitschichten als Teil des Ortes zu integrieren. Die Komplexität des abstrakten, gedanklichen Fügens verlorener räumlicher Zusammenhänge und geschichtlicher Abfolgen wird mit der atmosphärischen Landschaftlichkeit als Raumerlebnis zugänglich gemacht.
In einer dramaturgischen Neuordnung wird die Ankunft der Besucher von der bisherigen Verortung direkt neben dem Erlebnishöhepunkt karolingische Torhalle in die Nähe zum Altenmünster in der Niederung verlegt - also topographisch quasi an den Anfang der Siedlungsgeschichte des Klosters.
Der gesamte Landschaftsraum um die historischen Orte wird so geöffnet, dass der Besucher mit dem freigestellten Blick auf die Klostermauer und dem darüber liegenden Klostergelände einen Eindruck vom räumlichen Umfang der Anlage erhält. Ergänzend dienen – außerhalb der Klostermauer - verschiedene museale Schauräume, wie ein Schaudepot (Zehntscheune) mit Exponaten aktueller Grabungen und ein »Ort des Wissens« als Museumszentrum der detaillierten Wissensvermittlung auch übergeordneter geschichtlicher Sachverhalte.
In der Klosteranlage selbst bilden die ablesbar gestaltete Topographie der Düne sowie der Abdrücke der ehemaligen Gebäude mit einer gepflegten, überall betretbaren Rasenoberfläche die zusammenhaltende Textur des Ortes. Die auch historisch freistehende Torhalle erhält, als stadtseitiger Zugang (Benediktinerplatz) zum Kloster, einen umgebenden Bodenbelag, der sich als Liniengradation von Pflasterung zu Rasenfläche im Inneren der Anlage transformiert. Die Platzfläche vor der Torhalle soll in absehbarer Zeit umgestaltet werden.
Um das Klostergelände für heutige Anforderungen zu erschließen, wurden neue Wege als additives Element auf die modellierten Schichtungen aufgelegt.
Ein weiteres hinzugefügtes, nicht historisch belegtes Element ist der Kräutergarten, der hinter der Zehntscheune am Hügel liegt. In langen Bändern sind terrassenförmige Beete angelegt worden, die der Topographie des Hügels folgen. Trockenmauern aus Naturstein fassen die Beete ein, werden als Sitzmöglichkeit genutzt und bieten Lebensraum für Pflanzen und Tiere.
Der Bepflanzung liegt das »Lorscher Arzneibuch« zu Grunde, das um 795 n. Chr. geschrieben und 2013 in das UNESCO-Register des Dokumentenerbes aufgenommen wurde. Es ist das älteste erhaltene Buch zur Klostermedizin des frühen Mittelalters.
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Best Tourist Attractions Places To Travel In Germany | Reichenau Island Destination Spot
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Reichenau Island is an island in Lake Constance in southern Germany.
It lies almost due west of the city of Konstanz, between the Gnadensee and the Untersee, two parts of Lake Constance.
With a total land surface of 4.3 square kilometres and a circumference of 11 kilometres, the island is 4.5 kilometres long and 1.5 kilometres wide at its greatest extent.
The highest point, the Hochwart, stands some 43 metres above the lake surface and 438.7 metres above mean sea level.
Reichenau is connected to the mainland by a causeway, completed in 1838, which is intersected between the ruins of Schopflen Castle and the eastern end of Reichenau Island by a 10-metre-wide and 95-metre long waterway, the Bruckgraben.
A low road bridge allows the passage of ordinary boats but not of sailing-boats.
The island was declared a World Heritage Site in 2000 because of its monastery, the Abbey of Reichenau.
The Abbey stood along a main north–south highway between Germany and Italy, where the lake passage eased the arduous route.
The Abbey of Reichenau housed a school, and a scriptorium and artists' workshop, that has a claim to having been the largest and artistically most influential centre for producing lavishly illuminated manuscripts in Europe during the late 10th and early 11th centuries, often known as the Reichenau School.
The abbey's Münster (minster church) is dedicated to the Virgin and Saint Mark.
Two further churches were built on the island consecrated to Saint George and to Saints Peter and Paul.
The famous artworks of Reichenau include (in the church of St George) the Ottonian murals of miracles of Christ, unique survivals from the 10th century.
The abbey's bailiff was housed in a two-storey stone building to which two more storeys of timber framing were added in the 14th century, one of the oldest timber-frame buildings in south Germany.
Among the Abbey's far-flung landholdings was Reichenau, a village on the upper Rhine in the municipality of Tamins in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland, named for the Abbey.
Today the island is also famous for its vegetable farms.
The Wollmatinger Ried next to the island is a large nature preserve, a wetland area of reeds which is used by many birds as a stopover during their annual migration.
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Maulbronn Monastery - UNESCO World Heritage Site
The UNESCO World Heritage site of Maulbrunn Monastery is a large monastic complex in south-western Germany, beautifully well-preserved since the Middle Ages. It's apparently one of the most complex monasteries north of the Alps, and it's certainly an impressive sight with lots of timber-framed buildings, Romanesque chapels, and one of the first Gothic buildings in all of Germany.
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Briefmarke 1250 Jahre Lorsch, Stamp 1250 years Lorsch
Die neue Lorscher Briefmarke ist heiß begehrt: Vor der Ausgabestelle in der Tourist-Info im Alten Rathaus bildeten sich lange Schlangen.
The new Lorsch stamp is in great demand: Before issuing office in the Tourist Information Office in the Old Town Hall with long queues.