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Title
Foggy Zwiefalten Abbey
Artist
Robert VanDerWal
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography
Description
The early morning found Zwiefalten, Germany in fog.
Zwiefalten Abbey was a Benedictine Monastery near Reutlingen in Baden-Wurttemberg in Germany. It was founded in 1089 by the Counts Gero and Kuno of Achalm, advised by Bishop Adalbero of Wurzburg and Abbot Willian of Hirsau. Pope Urban VI granted special privileges to Zwiefalten Abbey but it was still the private monastery of the Counts of Achalm, later succeeded by the Counts of Wurttemberg.
Saint Ernest, an Abbot of Zwiefalten, died in 1148 fighting during the Second Crusade in the 12th century to regain the Holy Lands and Jerusalem from the north-eastern pagan tribes. In 1750 the Abbey was granted the status of an independent power subject to only the Imperial Crown and was free of the Wurttemberg rule. But in November of 1802 it was dissolved and the Zwiefalten Abbey became a lunatic asylum and later a psychiatric hospital, which it remains today. The abbey church became the Catholic parish church.
I was overwhelmed by the magistracy of the Zwiefalten Abbey. The interior measures up to most cathedrals I have encountered. I visited the town of Zwiefalten in late October 2019 during the October Fest celebrations that take place throughout Germany and especially southern Germany in the state of Bavaria.
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December 1st, 2019
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