The Cloister

Germany / Baden-Wurttemberg / Calw /
The Cloister is the biggest part of the ruins of Hirsau Abbey. It has a large courtyard, many windows and several windows were beautifully designed. 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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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirsau_Abbey
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Coordinates:   48°44'16"N   8°43'56"E
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