Reichenau (monastery)

Reichenau Monastery ( German: Kloster Reichenau ) is a Benedictine monastery on the island of Reichenau on Lake Constance . Along with the St. Gallen Abbey and the monastery in Fulda, it belongs to the most significant monuments of the Carolingian era in Germany . In the monastery are the churches of St. Mary and Mark, St. Peter and Paul and St. George, built in the IX-XI centuries. The monastery preserved the mural, considered the oldest in Germany.

Monastery
Monastery of Reichenau
Kloster reichenau
Monastery of Reichenau
A country	Germany
Isle	Reichenau
Denomination	Catholicism
Diocese
Type of	male
Architectural style
Founder	Bishop St. Pyrmine
Established	724 year
Date of Abolition	1803 year
Building
church of st. Mary and Mark • Church of St. Peter and Paul • St. George
Famous inhabitants	Herman from Reichenau

The monastery was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2000 .

It was founded in 724 by the bishop of St. Pyrmine in predominantly pagan for that period of time Alemania . According to legend Pirmin, having arrived on the island of Reichenau, expelled water snakes from it. Where his foot stepped onto the island, a spring scored.

The first heyday of the monastery falls on the VIII-IX centuries. - The period of Christianization of Alemania. Under Abbot Heyton, the monastery established relations with Byzantium , in it they studied the Greek language . According to the “Book of Sisters” of the Reichenau Monastery in the 870s. St. Methodius the Apostle of the Slavs , expelled by his opponents from Moravia to Swabia , as well as his Greek satellite missionaries, stayed in it. Most likely, it was in Reichenau that the “ Bavarian geographer ” (the traditional name for the place of later storage in Munich ) was compiled - a catalog of ethnonyms of Central and Eastern Europe, where Russia ( Ruzzi ) and a number of Slavic and Baltic tribes unknown from other sources are mentioned. Abbot of the Reichenau Monastery in the 40s. IX century was Valafrid Strabo .

Master Reichenauskoy school. The Gospel of King Otto III . Episode: Lord of the Throne. OK. 1000 g. Bavarian State Library. Munich

The second cultural heyday of Reichenau dates back to the Otton Renaissance . Thanks to the patronage of Ottones I and II , the school of book miniatures of the Reichenau Monastery became famous. In the XI century, the famous medieval scholar and music theorist Herman from Reichenau and Berno from Reichenau (abbot of the monastery in 1008-48) lived and worked in the monastery.

The monastery was secularized in 1803 . In 2001, a small group of Benedictine monks settled on the island.