In the Upper Palatinate, near the border with the Czech Republic is the Cistercian Abbey Waldsassen, dominated by the basilica wird. Die Abtei ist besonders berühmt durch ihre Bibliothek.Eine sehr kleine Zahl von Zisterzienserinnen, weniger als zehn, managen Klosterladen, Haus Joseph-ein Tagungshotel in altem, entkerntem Gemäuer, Stiftsbibliothek, Klosterschule und Klostergarten. Die weitere Renovierung läuft. So überrascht es nicht, dass die Äbtissin Lätitia Fech 2009 die Bayrische Verfassungsmedaille in Silber erhalten hat.
Allerdings hat das Kloster immer noch gegenüber einer Zimmerfront des Hauses Joseph eine etwas baufällige Häuserreihe, die fast so etwas wie mittelalterliches Flair vermittelt. Die Zimmer sind modern eingerichtet. Die Fenster und dicken Klostermauern halten jeglichen Lärm ab. Good food is an engaging and convincing.
Maybe you get even, at least on weekends, regular tours of the basilica toward.
The most interesting of the entire abbey is the abbey library. But this justifies Besuch.Zunächst already a library built as a console by Abbot George I (1495-1512), it originated in the 18th century under Abbot Eugene Schmid new and larger. The interior was still remarkable, Abbot Eugene Schmid (1724-1764), who had previously been librarian war.Von the original books received are only a few, only 15 000 are considered verschwunden.Unter the galleries of the library are 10 carved figures wearing, which have no structural function. Their meaning is supposedly still not geklärt.Es is for this cycle of large-sized carvings of the carver Charles Stilp apparently no parallel. Costumes and facial expressions reveal a close to fool representations (Sebastian Brant, Abraham a Sancta Clara). Egerländischer influences carnival figures and characters of the Commedia dell'Arte can not be excluded.
The Abbot Eugene Schmid wanted to lead the monks including this ambitious program shows the vices and temptations of the world constantly in view. Rebellion, stupidity, Arrogance, vanity, boasting, ignorance, pride, cunning, curiosity, hypocrisy will be symbolically dargestellt.Ein interested in art, educational, ambitious and a skeptical, but more realistic image of man in the monastery of outgoing Dept. This Eugen Schmid seems on the history of the monastery also important . Perhaps a more interesting Forschungsgegenstand.Bedauerlich just that along the ceiling of the library tape are stuck together. One covered the eyes of the abbot, who was immortalized on the ceiling. An attack on a critical spirit of the monastery's history? Who is responsible for the renovation?
By the way, disturbs me in many Catholic institutions to guide a rather uncritical approach to the church history.
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