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It was founded in 1544 by the Reformer Caspar Hédio on the site of the Wilhelmites convent, close to Saint William’s Church. The collegium enabled impoverished students to follow theology courses, to be housed and given a scholarship.
The Stift was founded as an Augustinian monastery in the Middle Ages. After the Reformation, in 1536, Duke Ulrich turned the Stift into a seminary which served to prepare Protestant pastors for Württemberg.
Sep 17, 2024 · A Protestant theological seminary founded in 1560 and housed in a former Augustinian monastery. Among famous alumni were Hauff, Hegel, Hölderlin, Mörike, Schelling, and the astronomer Johannes Kepler. It is associated with the University of Tübingen, founded in 1477.
The Stift was founded as an Augustinian monastery in the Middle Ages. After the Reformation, in 1536, Duke Ulrich turned the Stift into a seminary which served to prepare Protestant pastors for Württemberg.
Nonnberg Abbey was founded between 711-715. The early history of the convent's construction is unclear. What is known, however, is that Emperor Henry II built a Romanesque basilica around the turn of the millennium, which was consecrated to the Holy Mother of God in 1009 and has since then been the second oldest Marian church in Salzburg.
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More recently, in 1988, Heiligenkreuz founded Stiepel Priory at Bochum-Stiepel in the Ruhrgebiet. Furthermore, in the 1990s the monastery gave substantial support for re-founding Vyšší Brod Monastery in the Czech Republic.
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St. Florian Monastery (German: Stift Sankt Florian) is an Augustinian monastery in the town of Sankt Florian, Austria. Founded in the early ninth century, and later refounded by Augustinians in the eleventh century, St. Florian is the largest monastery in Upper Austria , and rivals Melk Abbey and Klosterneuburg Monastery as among the most ...
