Lady Chapel

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The Marian Chapel or the Lady Chapel is the third biggest part of the ruins of Hirsau Abbey. It was already restored, outside and inside, several years ago. It contains the monastery's library. Inside, it has very beautiful ornamentations and drawings.Today is used as a protestant church. Hirsau is a village in the northern part of the Black Forest, today a suburb of Calw. Hirsau Abbey was one of the most prominent Benedictine abbeys of Germany. Founded around 830 AD by Count Erlafried of Calw. The famous William of Hirsau, abbot from 1069 to 1091, introduced the Astrolab for measuring latitude positions. Therefore, the Hirsau abbey served already more than one millennium ago for geodetic purposes.
For more Information (www.kloster-hirsau.de) and ( www.newadvent.org/cathen/07363a.htm).
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