Regions
& Surveys
1.International:
(2.single countries: Austria, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Rep., France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Poland, Spain, Switzerland)
Catholicos.org
http://www.geocities.com/~catolicos/monaster.htm
list of selected
monasteries world wide sorted by country
Architecture religieuse en occident
http://architecture.relig.free.fr/accueil.htm
French: extensive site about medieval,
religious history arranged according to architectural, historical-cultural,
iconographical, geographical and chronological aspects, short history of
churches and monasteries in
The Catholic Church in
http://www.rc.net/africa/catholicafrica/
Christian Abbeys and Monasteries
http://www.sacred-destinations.com/sacred-sites/christian-monasteries.htm
small selection of
monasteries (mainly European) ordered by country
Euro-Region Nisa/Neisse
http://www.neisse-nisa-nysa.org/
Germ., Engl., Polish, Czech: under the
rubric „Tourism“ you can find introductory texts about monasteries and churches
of the region
Klosterführer
Online
http://www.kath.de/gruenewald/kloster/
more than 200 Christian places in
Orden-Online.de
very detailed page listing web sites (in German
language) of monasteries, orders and secular institutions
(1.International 2.single countries: Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Rep., France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Poland, Spain, Switzerland)
Klöster in Österreich
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Kl%C3%B6ster_in_%C3%96sterreich [opens
in a new window]
German: list with links to the Wikipedia
articles
Diözese Innsbruck
survey of the religious communities
in the diocese (addresses, links), events
Klöster
und Stifte
http://www.austria-tourism.at/urlaubsideen2...1.html?_um=18820&_h=kultur&_hm=18776&_b=c2
general historical survey
Klösterreich
- Überblick über alle Klöster Österreichs
http://www.noe.co.at/kloesterreich/
survey of all Austrian monasteries,
events, glossary, brief introductory texts about the religious orders in
Klosterbibliotheken in Österreich
http://www.klosterbibliotheken.at/
work for the obtainment of the Master of Advanced Studies: “Klosterbibliotheken in Österreich und die ́Digital- Heritagè -Politik Europas. Eine Momentaufnahme.” (Monastic libraries in Austria Stifte
in Österreich
http://www.50plus.at/Default.htm?http%3A//www.50plus.at/tr-stift.htm
Via
Imperialis (Burgen, Schlösser und Stifte)
castles and monasteries in
(1.International 2.single countries: Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Rep., France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Poland, Spain, Switzerland)
Liège
http://www.fabrice-muller.be/ [opens in a new window]
French: detailed site
about Liège (Luik) and its history with photos, links
Medieval Tournai
http://vlib.iue.it/carrie/documents/herman/
English,
partly French: site about the medieval Tournai, with medieval Latin texts,
photos, images and links
Serveur
Catho - L`église de Belgique on-line
French
Bosnia-Herzegovina
(1.International 2.single countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Rep., France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Poland, Spain, Switzerland)
The
Catholic Church in Bosnia-Herzegovina
http://www.bkbih.org/info/english_web.pdf
English:
PDF document about the Christianization of that region from the year 1022 until
the modern times
History
of Church in
http://www.bkbih.org/en/history/histori_of_the_curch_in_bah.htm
Bulgaria
„Kleines Land der 120 Klöster“
http://www.orthodoxfrat.de/s4klbg.htm
German: brief description of 79 monasteries
Czech Republic
(1.International 2.single countries: Austria, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Poland, Spain, Switzerland)
http://www.zamky-hrady.cz/index-e.htm
Czech, Germ., Engl.:
manors, castles, ruins …, monasteries & pilgrimages
Klöster in Tschechien
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategorie:Kloster_in_Tschechien [opens in a new window]
German: list of monasteries in the
(1.International 2.single countries: Austria, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Rep., Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Poland, Spain, Switzerland)
Site portail du monde monastique
portal to French monasteries,
general history presentations, Regula Benedicti in Latin and several
translations, information and links to monasteries in other francophone
countries. Pay attention to the subdivision in monasteries of today
(„aujourd`hui“) and former ones („hier“)!
Correzeromane
French: site about the Romanic (and Gothic)
sacral architecture in the French region Bas-Limousin: bell towers, portals,
sculptures, ...; list with all churches of the region and short description
La
Médiathèque de l'agglomération troyenne
http://www.bm-troyes.fr/bmtroyes/
French:
this site contains high-quality photos of more than 400 000 original documents
of different French institutions located in the area of
Liste des abbayes et monastères français
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_des_abbayes_et_monast%C3%A8res_fran%C3%A7ais [opens in a new window]
French: French abbeys and monasteries: list of links to the articles of
Wikipedia
Limousin :
Les ordres religieux en Limousin
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/grandmont
survey on religious
orders founded here and on monasteries in this region
Monarchs and monasteries: Knowledge
and power in medieval
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/bnf/bnf0003.html
Engl.: objects presented in the
exhibition «Creating French Culture – Treasures from the Bibliothèque nationale
de France» in the Library of Congress with explanations
Normandie:
Tabularia - Sources écrites de la Normandie médiévale
http://www.unicaen.fr/mrsh/crahm/revue/tabularia/index.html
French,
partly in English: e-journal, studies of medieval written sources of the Normandy/France,
articles in HTML and PDF format, with intern research machine
Picardie – cultural and historic patrimonyhttp://www.cr-picardie.fr/de/page.cfm?pageref=culture~patrimoine~patrimoine
French,
Engl., German: general map: „the cultural patrimony Picard“ (cathedrals,
abbeys, castles...) each with an introductory text
Romanes.com
French, English, Spanish: Romanesque, Gothic and Cistercian architecture
and arts in
Romanico Aragonés
http://www.romanicoaragones.com/
Spanish: Aragonese Romanesque in Spain and Southern France with interactive
map and brief description of Romanic buildings (monasteries, churches etc.), dictionary,
bibliogra-phy, photos, forums, links
Toulouse: Cloîtres et monastères disparus
de Toulouse
http://www.ac-toulouse.fr/culture/religieux/cloitres.htm
detailed
information on former monasteries
Germany
(1.International 2.single countries: Austria, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Rep., France, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Poland, Spain, Switzerland)
Klöster in
Baden-Württemberg
German: very detailed information about monasteries
of different orders with bibliography; partly with pictures, search ordered by
region, location, order, diocese
Baden-Wuerttemberg: Schlösser, Burgen,
Klöster, Kirchen und Gärten
http://www.schloesser-magazin.de/ [opens in a new window]
introduction
of castles and monasteries
Baden-Wuerttemberg: Klöster in Baden-Württemberg [opens in a new window]
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategorie:Kloster_in_Baden-W%C3%BCrttemberg
German: list of monasteries in Baden-Wuerttemberg with links to the
Wikipedia articles
http://www.datenmatrix.de/projekte/hdbg/kloster/
collection
of data on monasteries, dissolved in the 16th or in the beginning of
the 19th century; (elementary information and bibliographic
reference), search by order or location
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategorie:Kloster_in_Bayern [opens in a new window]
German: list of monasteries in
http://www.hdbg.de/polges/index.htm
German: detailed political history of
Brandenburgisches Klosterbuch – Projekt der Uni Potsdam
http://www.uni-potsdam.de/u/klosterbuch/
Monasteries,
religious foundations and commanderies in the historical landscapes of
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategorie:Kloster_in_Brandenburg [opens in a new window]
German: list of monasteries in
Braunschweigs Geschichte
http://www-public.tu-bs.de:8080/~y0007612/Pages/bskirch2.htm
history of the town in general and
of the churches and monasteries in particular
Essen: Der Dom
http://www.bistum-essen.de/dom/
Freiburg: „ Klöster im Erzbistum Freiburg“
(database)
http://www.theol.uni-freiburg.de/ab/nkg/
a project of the Theological Faculty/ University
Freiburg; data base for download
Geldria Religiosa
http://www.geldria-religiosa.de/
German: history of the monasteries in the historic dukedom Geldern, ordered by
male and female convents, different monastic rules and texts, links
Görlitz: Bistum Görlitz
http://www.kathweb.de/community/bistum-goerlitz/
information
on the catholic church between the rivers Neiße and
Hamburg: Die Geschichte des
Heiligengeistfeldes
http://www.karo4tel.de/4tel/heilig.htm
with bibliography
Hessen: Klöster
in Hessen
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategorie:Kloster_in_Hessen [opens in anew window]
German: list of monasteries in
Hildesheim
http://www.ev-kirche-hildesheim-sarstedt.de/geschichte.html
a history project (open to everyone)
Kath.de
the German catholic portal
Katholische-Kirche.de
http://www.katholische-kirche.de/
portal
to religious orders and educational institutions
Köln: Erzbistum
http://www.erzbistum-koeln.de/opencms/opencms/erzbistum/index.html
information
on history, churches, religious orders in the archdiocese
Köln: Wallfahrt im Erzbistum Kölnhttp://www3.erzbistum-koeln.de/erzbistum/kirchevorort/wallfahrt/
pilgrimage in the archbishopric of
Leipziger Klöster und Kirchen
http://www.leipzig-lexikon.de/KIRCHEN/KIRCHEN.HTM
short texts about monasteries and
churches of
http://www.propstei-leipzig.de/ [opens in a new window]
survey
on the religious orders in
Lemgoer Bildteppich
http://www.lemgo.de/personen/teppich_stmarien/Frauen_machen_Geschichte.htm
German: short information about the carpet of Lemgo, with heraldic information,
images and a short bibliography as well as photos of the archaeological
excavation
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategorie:Kloster_in_Niedersachsen [opens in a new window]
German: list of monasteries in
Lüneburg: Die materielle Kultur in den Lüneburger
Testamenten 1323 bis 1500
http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/diss/1998/mosler/inhalt.htm
German:
dissertation about the material culture in testaments of Lüneburg
Lüneburger Heide: Kirchen und Klöster in
der Lüneburger Heide
http://www.lueneburgerheide-kirchen.de/
several
maps and charcoal drawings of churches and monasteries, historical survey and
some details about the interior
Magdeburg: Das Bistum
http://www.kathweb.de/bistum-magdeburg/
good history chapter, …
Magdeburg:
Der Dom
http://www.magdeburg-tourist.de/indexmd.phtml [opens in a new
window]
click on „Stadt + Geschichte“ and then
„Magdeburger Dom“
Mecklenburg: Abriß der Geschichte der
katholischen Kirche in Mecklenburg
http://eba-schwerin.de/eba_new/s/geschichte/geschichte_meckpom.html
historical
outline about the catholic church in Mecklenburg
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: Kirchen und Klöster
http://www.all-in-all.com/8020.htm
photos and short introductions on
several churches and monasteries
Meißen: Urkunden des Hochstifts Meißen
Band I (962-1356)
http://isgv.serveftp.org/codex/codex.php?band=cds2_01
German: Latin and German charters of the
Urkunden des Hochstifts Meißen Band
II (1357-1423)
http://isgv.serveftp.org/codex/codex.php?band=cds2_02
Urkunden des Hochstifts Meißen Band III
(1424-1492)
http://isgv.serveftp.org/codex/codex.php?band=cds2_03
Münster: Armut, Not und gute Werke
http://www.muenster.de/stadt/armut/index1.html
social foundations in Münster
Naumburg: Der hoch- und spätromanische
Bauschmuck des Naumburger Domes im Zusammenhang der Baugeschichte
http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/diss/2002/glaeseker/glaeseker.pdf
German:
dissertation about the Romanesque ornaments of the cathedral in Naumburg
North-Rhine
Westphalia: Klöster in Nordrhein-Westfalen
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategorie:Kloster_in_Nordrhein-Westfalen [opens in a new window]
German: list of monasteries in North-Rhine Westphalia with links to the Wikipedia articles
Oberrhein,
Klöster am ~
http://www.zum.de/Faecher/G/BW/Landeskunde/rhein/kloester/index.htm
German:
monasteries in the Oberrhein region (in most cases Cistercian): short texts,
exterior and interior views
Orden.de
German:
introduction concerning religious communities in
Regnal
Chronologies: Indices concerning the
http://www.hostkingdom.net/Indices.html
succession
lists of the imperial ecclesiastic states incl. convents and abbeys
Reichenau: Klosterkirchen auf der
Reichenau
http://www.zum.de/Faecher/G/BW/Landeskunde/bodensee/kloester/reichenau/index.htm
information
on several monastery churches
Rhineland-Palatinate: Klöster in Rheinland-Pfalz
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategorie:Kloster_in_Rheinland-Pfalz [opens in a new window]
German: list of monasteries in Rhineland-Palatinate with links to the
Wikipedia articles
http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/monsax/
monastery survey,
some monasteries are documented in particular, links, timeline; texts about the
religious orders, monastic life, women’s movements ... with bibliographic reference, you can search
also the data base (literature, sources,…)
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategorie:Kloster_in_Sachsen [opens in a new window]
German: list of monasteries in
Saxony-Anhalt: Straße der Romanik
http://www.magdeburg.de/showobject.phtml?object=tx|115.97.1
information on selected cultural
monuments of the Romanesque period
Saxony-Anhalt: Klöster in
Sachsen-Anhalt
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategorie:Kloster_in_Sachsen-Anhalt [opens in a new window]
German: list of monasteries in Saxony-Anhalt with links to the Wikipedia
articles
http://www.teutoburgerwald.de/teutoburgerwald/pages/i_geschichte/04_nonnen.html
German: information concerning different monasteries in the Teutoburg
forest, with links
Thüringisches
Klosterbuch
http://www.uni-erfurt.de/monasticon/
survey on monasteries and orders in
Trier: Das ländliche Pfarrbenefizium im hochmittelalterlichen Erzbistum Trier
http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/diss/2000/brueckner/inhalt.htm#inhalt
German thesis complete for Download
Historisches Württemberg
http://www.historisches-wuerttemberg.de/frame/frame.htm
German: survey maps, monasteries, fortresses and castles of Wuerttemberg
with short history and many images, history and culture of Wuerttemberg,
open-air museums
Zittauer Fastentuch - ein
spätmittelalterliches Kunstwerk
http://www.zittauer-fastentuecher.de/index2.htm
German: article about the theological programme; description and images
Great Britain
(1.International 2.single countries: Austria, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Rep., France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Poland, Spain, Switzerland)
UK-Heritage…Religious
http://www.heritage.me.uk/religiou.htm
cathedrals,
abbeys... each with photos and introductory text
Abbeys and priories in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbeys_and_priories_in_England [opens in a new window]
ordered by region
Abbeys and priories in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbeys_and_priories_in_Northern_Ireland [opens in a new window]
ordered by region (county)
Abbeys and priories in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbeys_and_priories_in_Scotland [opens in a new window]
ordered by region
Abbeys and priories in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbeys_and_priories_in_Wales [opens in a new window]
ordered by region
All
Saints Abbey Dale / churches list
http://www.derbycity.com/derby2/dale.html
brief
history chapter about All Saints Abbey Dale with a church list (most links
refer only to a single picture or sporadic information)
Catholic
Church in
http://www.catholic-ew.org.uk/
very extensive (international and
thematic) collection of links
The
abbeys, monasteries and churches of
the district
Hampshire: Churches and Christian Heritage
http://www.hants.gov.uk/discover/church.html
elementary information, partly
linked to homepages
Lindisfarne- The
“The religious history of
Monasticism in
http://www.britannia.com/church/ch10.html
introductory text and chapters about
the religious orders
http://www.cathedral.org.uk/pages/html/index.html
English: detailed information on the history and architecture of the cathedral,
with timeline, images, 360° panorama
Regesta
regum anglorum
http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/chartwww/NewRegReg.html
English:
detailed site with Anglo-Saxon charters, lists of rulers, abbots and bishops in
Scottish Abbeys and Churches
http://www.aboutscotland.com/castles/abbeys.html
Brief historical presentations,
photos and ground plans of Withorn Priory, Abbey Melrose, Abbey Dryburgh
St. Andrew’s Church, Nether Wallop
http://www.hants.gov.uk/wallop/
detailed historical survey
St. Peter’s Church Derby
http://www.stpetersderby.org.uk/
history chapter with cross
references, links
http://www.castlewales.com/abbeys.html
Engl. (partly Welsh): introduction
of religious sites in
http://vlib.iue.it/carrie/documents/jjcrump/frontpg.html
English:
site with short information about
Witham Valley
a map of
http://cistercians.shef.ac.uk/
Byland,
Fountains, Kirkstall, Rievaulx, and Roche Abbey: history and description of the
buildings of each abbey
Ireland
(1.International 2.single countries: Austria, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Rep., France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Norway, Poland, Spain, Switzerland)
Abbeys and priories in the
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbeys_and_priories_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland [opens in a new
window]
ordered by region (County)
http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlkik/ihm/
with an extensive bibliography
Monastic Ireland
http://www.catholicireland.net/monasticireland/index.htm
chapters on monasteries and saints
in
Italy
(1.International 2.single countries: Austria, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Rep., France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Spain, Switzerland)
Abbazie
Italian: links concerning different churches,
monasteries and abbeys in
Abbazie, Conventi, Monasteri in Italia
http://www.chiesacattolica.it/cci_new/UfficiCEI/AllegatiArt/20/MonasteriOpuscoloInternet.pdf
PDF-file, which lists monasteries,
convents and abbeys in the single provinces of
Abbeys
of
http://www.abbeys-of-tuscany.com/
English:
Tuscan churches and monasteries, each with photo and link to the home page,
partly with brief description
Studien zu
Kapitelsaalprogrammen zwischen 1250 und 1450 in ober- und mittelitalienischen
Klöstern
http://freidok.ub.uni-freiburg.de/freidok/volltexte/2000/133/pdf/_INDEX.HTM
dissertation: studies about programs
of chapter houses of monasteries in the north and centre of
Toskana im Mittelalter
http://www.museumonline.at/1998/schools/niederoe/no_wnstd/
Engl.: history, monasteries, towns, artists, monuments in the Tuscany
Tra città e
territorio: monasteri pisani medievali. Materiali per la ricerca.
http://192.167.112.135/NewPages/COLLANE/TESTIBDS/07/06.pdf
Italian: article about diverse
literature (medieval documents, dissertations) concerning medieval monasteries
in the region of
(1.International 2.single countries: Austria, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Rep., France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Spain, Switzerland)
Norwegian: biographical texts on
saints, statistics
Architektura
Sakralna
http://www.architektura.pomorze.pl/
Polish: side about sacral architecture with details of many monasteries
in
Die Heiligen und ihre Verehrung im
mittelalterlichen Schlesien
http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/edoc/p/cma/6-03/mrozowicz.pdf
German:
text about the adoration of saints in medieval
Christian Martyrs in Muslim
http://libro.uca.edu/martyrs/martyrs.htm
English:
extensive essay, bibliography
Links to Spanish monasteries
http://www.planalfa.es/confer/congregaciones.htm
links to Spanish monasteries in alphabetical
order
Romanico Aragonés
http://www.romanicoaragones.com/
Spanish: Aragonese Romanesque in Spain and Southern France with
interactive map and brief description of Romanic buildings (monasteries,
churches etc.), dictionary, bibliogra-phy, photos, forums, links
Santiago de Compostela: Die
Pilgerfahrt nach Santiago de Compostela
http://www.kath.de/quodlibe/santiago/santiago.htm
German: several chapters and
bibliographic reference
The
http://libro.uca.edu/scp/spchurch.htm
English:
extensive essay, bibliography
(1.International 2.single countries: Austria, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Rep., France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Poland, Spain)
Abbey Library of St.
Gall, Switzerland online
http://www.cesg.unifr.ch/de/index.htm
English, German,
French, Italian: high resolution digital images with over 40'000 facsimile
pages of 100 complete manuscripts, with description and search engine
Orden in der Schweiz
http://www.kath.ch/orden/default.htm [opens in a new window]
Germ., French, Ital., Engl.:
detailed information on the history of monasticism, links, survey of the
monastery in
Klöster in der Schweiz
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategorie:Kloster_in_der_Schweiz [opens in a new window]
German: list with links to the Wikipedia articles
http://www.helvetiasacra.ch/
publications on
religious orders in
