Monastic Island of Reichenau - UNESCO World Heritage Site
A tour of the UNESCO World Heritage monastic island in Reichenau, at Lake Konstanz in Germany. This monastic community was founded in the 8th century, and over 20 churches and chapels were built on the island, though only three of them survive. Come along with me as I visit each, marvelling at the incredibly well-preserved frescoes and paintings inside!
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Monastic Island of Reichenau, Germany
A visit of the medieval churches of the Unesco World Heritage Site Monastic Island of Reichenau.. Follow the steps of the first pioneer monks -
Island Reichenau am Bodensee von oben
Location: Island Reichenau in Konstanz - Germany
Drehort: Insel Reichenau in Konstanz - Deutschland
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Reichenau (alemannisch: Riichenau) ist eine bewohnte Insel im Landkreis Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg und die größte Insel im Bodensee. Seit 2000 ist sie mit dem Kloster Reichenau auf der UNESCO-Liste des Welterbes verzeichnet. Die Insel sei, so die UNESCO in ihrer Begründung, ein herausragendes Zeugnis der religiösen und kulturellen Rolle eines großen Benediktinerklosters im Mittelalter.
English:
Reichenau Island is an island in Lake Constance in southern Germany, at approximately 47°42′N 9°4′ECoordinates: 47°42′N 9°4′E. It lies between Gnadensee and Untersee, two parts of Lake Constance, almost due west of the city of Konstanz. The island is connected to the mainland by a causeway that was completed in 1838. The causeway is interrupted between the site of the former castle Schopflen and the eastern end of Reichenau Island by the 10-metre-wide Bruckgraben, a waterway which is spanned by a low road bridge that allows passage of ordinary boats but not of sailboats through its 95-metre course. Its total area is less than 7 square kilometers (3 square miles). The highest elevation on the island, the Hochwart, reaches 438.7 metres, or 43 metres above the lake surface.
It was declared a World Heritage Site in 2000 because of its monastery, the Abbey of Reichenau. The abbey's Münster is dedicated to the Virgin and Saint Mark. Two further churches were built on the island consecrated to St Georg, and to Sts Peter and Paul. The famous artworks of Reichenau include the Ottonian murals of miracles of Christ in St Georg, unique survivals from the 10th century. The abbey's bailiff was housed in a two-storey stone building that was raised by two more storeys of timber framing 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 big nature preserve, a wetland area of reeds which is used by many birds for the stopover during their annual migration.
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Bodensee Insel Reichenau
Reichenau (alemannisch: Riichenau) ist eine bewohnte Insel im Landkreis Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg und die größte Insel im Bodensee. Seit 2000 ist sie mit dem Kloster Reichenau auf der UNESCO-Liste des Welterbes verzeichnet. Die Insel sei, so die UNESCO in ihrer Begründung, ein herausragendes Zeugnis der religiösen und kulturellen Rolle eines großen Benediktinerklosters im Mittelalter.
Reichenau (alemannisch: Riichenau) is an inhabited island in the district of Constance in Baden-Württemberg and the largest island in Lake Constance. Since 2000, it has been listed on the UNESCO List of the World Heritage with the Reichenau Monastery. According to UNESCO, the island is an outstanding testimony to the religious and cultural role of a great Benedictine monastery in the Middle Ages.
Reichenau (alemannisch: Riichenau) est une île habitée dans le district de Konstanz dans le Bade-Wurtemberg et la plus grande île du lac de Constance. Depuis 2000, elle a enregistré avec le monastère de Reichenau sur la Liste du patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO. Que l'île, l'UNESCO dans ses motifs, un remarquable exemple de fonction religieuse et culturelle d'un grand monastère bénédictin au Moyen Age.
Reichenau (alemannisch: Riichenau) es una isla habitada en el distrito de Constanza, en Baden-Württemberg y la isla más grande del lago de Constanza. Desde 2000 ha grabado con el monasterio de Reichenau en la Lista del Patrimonio Mundial de la UNESCO. Dejar que la isla, la UNESCO en sus motivos, un ejemplo sobresaliente de papel religioso y cultural de un gran monasterio benedictino en la Edad Media.
賴歇瑙（alemannisch：Riichenau）在康斯坦茨巴登 - 符騰堡州地區和康斯坦茨湖中最大的島嶼有人居住的島嶼。自2000年以來她已經記錄列入聯合國教科文組織世界遺產名錄的寺院賴歇瑙。讓島上，聯合國教科文組織在它的地面，在中世紀偉大本篤會修道院的宗教和文化作用的傑出範例。
Райхенау (Alemannisch: Riichenau) является обитаемым островом в районе города Констанц в Баден-Вюртемберге и самый большой остров в Боденском озере. С 2000 года она записала с монастырем Райхенау в Список всемирного наследия ЮНЕСКО. Пусть остров, ЮНЕСКО в ее основании, выдающийся пример религиозной и культурной роли большого бенедиктинского монастыря в средневековье.
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Schöne Reichenau
Reichenau ist eine bewohnte Insel im Landkreis Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg und die größte Insel im Bodensee. Seit 2000 ist sie mit dem Kloster Reichenau auf der UNESCO-Liste des Welterbes verzeichnet. Die Insel sei, so die UNESCO in ihrer Begründung, ein herausragendes Zeugnis der religiösen und kulturellen Rolle eines großen Benediktinerklosters im Mittelalter.
Reichenau Island is an island in Lake Constance in southern Germany, at approximately 47°42′N 9°4′ECoordinates: 47°42′N 9°4′E. It lies between Gnadensee and Untersee, two parts of Lake Constance, almost due west of the city of Konstanz. The island is connected to the mainland by a causeway that was completed in 1838. The causeway is interrupted between the site of the former castle Schopflen and the eastern end of Reichenau Island by the 10-metre-wide Bruckgraben, a waterway which is spanned by a low road bridge that allows passage of ordinary boats but not of sailboats through its 95-metre course. Its total area is less than 7 square kilometers (3 square miles). The highest elevation on the island, the Hochwart, reaches 438.7 metres, or 43 metres above the lake surface.
It was declared a World Heritage Site in 2000 because of its monastery, the Abbey of Reichenau. The abbey's Münster is dedicated to the Virgin and Saint Mark. Two further churches were built on the island consecrated to St Georg, and to Sts Peter and Paul. The famous artworks of Reichenau include the Ottonian murals of miracles of Christ in St Georg, unique survivals from the 10th century. The abbey's bailiff was housed in a two-storey stone building that was raised by two more storeys of timber framing in the 14th century, one of the oldest timber-frame buildings in south Germany.
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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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Corporate video of the the state heritage agency of Baden-Württemberg
If you want to see Baden-Württemberg at its most beautiful, visit the many palaces and gardens run by the state heritage agency, Staatliche Schlösser und Gärten. How about a perfectly-preserved monastery complex, such as the UNESCO World Heritage Site, Maulbronn? Or there are Heidelberg's world-famous ruins - while Ludwigsburg offers a grand Baroque palace with a special museum just for children. And there's much, much more.
UNESCO-Welterbestätte Klosterinsel Reichenau - Erforschung St. Georg
St. Georg auf der Insel Reichenau ist ein Kulturdenkmal von besonderer, nationaler Bedeutung. Mit der im Jahr 2000 erfolgten Anerkennung der Insel Reichenau als UNESCO Welterbe erhielt St. Georg mit seinem frühmittelalterlichen Baubestand und seinem einzigartigen monumentalen Wandmalereibestand aus der zweiten Hälfte des 10. Jahrhunderts, der als hervorragendstes Denkmal einer ganzen Epoche gilt, den ihm ohne Frage gebührenden Platz im Kreise der bedeutendsten Kulturdenkmale der Welt.
More assorted Historic Churches Visited in Germany (part 2 of 2 videos)
This is the second part we filmed of various historic Catholic churches we saw during our vacation in Germany and Austria. The ones featured in this video were located in Heidelberg (The Church of The Jesuits), the church/chapel located in the ancient castle Schloss Heidelberg, located in the region of Germany known as Baden-Württemberg & St. George's Church (Daniel) located in the medieval town of Nordlingen in the Bavarian region & part of the Romantic Road.
GERMANY: Birnau - church on Lake Constance [HD]
Birnau is a pilgrimage church at the shore of Lake Constance (German: Bodensee), between Meersburg and Überlingen (88690 Uhldingen-Mühlhofen).
Its baroque style, the interior rococo design by Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer and Gottfried Bernhard Göz, as well as the picturesque view from the square before the cathedral made Birnau one of the most popular tourist destinations at Lake Constance.
It was built in 1746-1749 for the Cistercians monastery of Salem (Germany) by Austrian architect Peter Thumb.
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Panoramic image from inside the church:
Insel Reichenau - Hafen
Reichenau ist eine bewohnte Insel im Landkreis Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg und die größte Insel im Bodensee. Seit 2000 ist sie mit dem Kloster Reichenau auf der UNESCO-Liste des Welterbes verzeichnet. Die Insel sei, so die UNESCO in ihrer Begründung, ein herausragendes Zeugnis der religiösen und kulturellen Rolle eines großen Benediktinerklosters im Mittelalter.
Reichenau Island is an island in Lake Constance in southern Germany, at approximately 47°42′N 9°4′ECoordinates: 47°42′N 9°4′E. It lies between Gnadensee and Untersee, two parts of Lake Constance, almost due west of the city of Konstanz. The island is connected to the mainland by a causeway that was completed in 1838. The causeway is interrupted between the site of the former castle Schopflen and the eastern end of Reichenau Island by the 10-metre-wide Bruckgraben, a waterway which is spanned by a low road bridge that allows passage of ordinary boats but not of sailboats through its 95-metre course. Its total area is less than 7 square kilometers (3 square miles). The highest elevation on the island, the Hochwart, reaches 438.7 metres, or 43 metres above the lake surface.
It was declared a World Heritage Site in 2000 because of its monastery, the Abbey of Reichenau. The abbey's Münster is dedicated to the Virgin and Saint Mark. Two further churches were built on the island consecrated to St Georg, and to Sts Peter and Paul. The famous artworks of Reichenau include the Ottonian murals of miracles of Christ in St Georg, unique survivals from the 10th century. The abbey's bailiff was housed in a two-storey stone building that was raised by two more storeys of timber framing in the 14th century, one of the oldest timber-frame buildings in south Germany.
Auf der Reichenau blühen sogar die Fahrräder - On the island of Reichenau bloom even bicycles
Reichenau ist eine bewohnte Insel im Landkreis Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg und die größte Insel im Bodensee. Seit 2000 ist sie mit dem Kloster Reichenau auf der UNESCO-Liste des Welterbes verzeichnet. Die Insel sei, so die UNESCO in ihrer Begründung, ein herausragendes Zeugnis der religiösen und kulturellen Rolle eines großen Benediktinerklosters im Mittelalter.
Reichenau Island is an island in Lake Constance in southern Germany, at approximately 47°42′N 9°4′ECoordinates: 47°42′N 9°4′E. It lies between Gnadensee and Untersee, two parts of Lake Constance, almost due west of the city of Konstanz. The island is connected to the mainland by a causeway that was completed in 1838. The causeway is interrupted between the site of the former castle Schopflen and the eastern end of Reichenau Island by the 10-metre-wide Bruckgraben, a waterway which is spanned by a low road bridge that allows passage of ordinary boats but not of sailboats through its 95-metre course. Its total area is less than 7 square kilometers (3 square miles). The highest elevation on the island, the Hochwart, reaches 438.7 metres, or 43 metres above the lake surface.
It was declared a World Heritage Site in 2000 because of its monastery, the Abbey of Reichenau. The abbey's Münster is dedicated to the Virgin and Saint Mark. Two further churches were built on the island consecrated to St Georg, and to Sts Peter and Paul. The famous artworks of Reichenau include the Ottonian murals of miracles of Christ in St Georg, unique survivals from the 10th century. The abbey's bailiff was housed in a two-storey stone building that was raised by two more storeys of timber framing in the 14th century, one of the oldest timber-frame buildings in south Germany.
Palmen satt auf der Reichenau
Reichenau ist eine bewohnte Insel im Landkreis Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg und die größte Insel im Bodensee. Seit 2000 ist sie mit dem Kloster Reichenau auf der UNESCO-Liste des Welterbes verzeichnet. Die Insel sei, so die UNESCO in ihrer Begründung, ein herausragendes Zeugnis der religiösen und kulturellen Rolle eines großen Benediktinerklosters im Mittelalter.
Reichenau Island is an island in Lake Constance in southern Germany, at approximately 47°42′N 9°4′ECoordinates: 47°42′N 9°4′E. It lies between Gnadensee and Untersee, two parts of Lake Constance, almost due west of the city of Konstanz. The island is connected to the mainland by a causeway that was completed in 1838. The causeway is interrupted between the site of the former castle Schopflen and the eastern end of Reichenau Island by the 10-metre-wide Bruckgraben, a waterway which is spanned by a low road bridge that allows passage of ordinary boats but not of sailboats through its 95-metre course. Its total area is less than 7 square kilometers (3 square miles). The highest elevation on the island, the Hochwart, reaches 438.7 metres, or 43 metres above the lake surface.
It was declared a World Heritage Site in 2000 because of its monastery, the Abbey of Reichenau. The abbey's Münster is dedicated to the Virgin and Saint Mark. Two further churches were built on the island consecrated to St Georg, and to Sts Peter and Paul. The famous artworks of Reichenau include the Ottonian murals of miracles of Christ in St Georg, unique survivals from the 10th century. The abbey's bailiff was housed in a two-storey stone building that was raised by two more storeys of timber framing in the 14th century, one of the oldest timber-frame buildings in south Germany.
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.
Maulbronn Monastery Complex, Germany
Enter in one of the best conserved medieval monasteries of the entire Europe: Maulbronn, also inserted in the Unesco World Heritage List, in Germany
Maulbronn Monastery
Maulbronn Kloster is a medieval monastery in Germany built from 12th to the 14th century. There is a good audio tour available in English, so we could learn about the rooms we walked through. The audio at the end is of Maulbronn monks singing.
Kloster Hirsau - Hirsau Abbey - Germany
Klosteranlagen in Hirsau
Das Kloster Hirsau war ein Benediktinerkloster in Hirsau im Nordschwarzwald. Meist meint man damit die Anlage St. Peter und Paul. Im weiteren Sinn umfasst die Bezeichnung jedoch auch deren Vorläufer.
Hirsau (vormals auch Hirschau) war zeitweise eines der bedeutendsten Klöster Deutschlands. Es diente der cluniazensischen Reformbewegung sehr früh als deutscher Stützpunkt. Von hier ging eine Reihe von Klostergründungen aus, aber auch die Erneuerung bestehender Gemeinschaften nach der sogenannten Hirsauer Reform. Zum Zeitpunkt seiner Errichtung im späten 11. Jahrhundert war St. Peter und Paul das baulich größte Kloster im deutschsprachigen Raum. Während des Pfälzischen Erbfolgekriegs brannte die Anlage 1692 aus und verfiel dann.
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Hirsau Abbey, formerly known as Hirschau Abbey, was once one of the most important Benedictine abbeys of Germany. It is located in the Hirsau borough of Calw on the northern slopes of the Black Forest mountain range, in the present-day state of Baden-Württemberg. In the 11th and 12th century, the monastery was a centre of the Cluniac Reforms, implemented as Hirsau Reforms in the German lands. The complex was devastated during the War of the Palatine Succession in 1692 and not rebuilt.
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Gemüseanbau auf der Reichenau
Reichenau ist eine bewohnte Insel im Landkreis Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg und die größte Insel im Bodensee. Seit 2000 ist sie mit dem Kloster Reichenau auf der UNESCO-Liste des Welterbes verzeichnet. Die Insel sei, so die UNESCO in ihrer Begründung, ein herausragendes Zeugnis der religiösen und kulturellen Rolle eines großen Benediktinerklosters im Mittelalter.
Reichenau Island is an island in Lake Constance in southern Germany, at approximately 47°42′N 9°4′ECoordinates: 47°42′N 9°4′E. It lies between Gnadensee and Untersee, two parts of Lake Constance, almost due west of the city of Konstanz. The island is connected to the mainland by a causeway that was completed in 1838. The causeway is interrupted between the site of the former castle Schopflen and the eastern end of Reichenau Island by the 10-metre-wide Bruckgraben, a waterway which is spanned by a low road bridge that allows passage of ordinary boats but not of sailboats through its 95-metre course. Its total area is less than 7 square kilometers (3 square miles). The highest elevation on the island, the Hochwart, reaches 438.7 metres, or 43 metres above the lake surface.
It was declared a World Heritage Site in 2000 because of its monastery, the Abbey of Reichenau. The abbey's Münster is dedicated to the Virgin and Saint Mark. Two further churches were built on the island consecrated to St Georg, and to Sts Peter and Paul. The famous artworks of Reichenau include the Ottonian murals of miracles of Christ in St Georg, unique survivals from the 10th century. The abbey's bailiff was housed in a two-storey stone building that was raised by two more storeys of timber framing in the 14th century, one of the oldest timber-frame buildings in south Germany.