Monastic Island of Reichenau - Herdwangen Schonach

The Monastic Island of Reichenau holds the influential Benedictine Abbey, which was founded in 724 by the itinerant Saint Pirmin. It lies in Lake Constance in southern Germany. 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 center for producing lavishly illuminated manuscripts in Europe during the late 10th and early 11th centuries, when this part of Switzerland belonged to the Holy

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Herdwangen Schonach

Type : Heritage Site
Country: Germany
Continent: Europe
Annual Visitors : 0