Fulda monastery

Monastery · School or library

abbey in Germany

Location: 50.5540, 9.6717

What this place is

  • Monastery — Fulda monastery — "abbey in Germany", distinct from Fulda Cathedral above
  • School or library — Hrabanus Maurus taught here after Alcuin taught him, and the school he built made Fulda the busiest scriptorium east of the Rhine — five people in this dataset pass through it.

Who is recorded here

In art

About the place

The Abbey of Fulda, from 1221 the Princely Abbey of Fulda and from 1752 the Prince-Bishopric of Fulda, was a Benedictine abbey and ecclesiastical principality centered on Fulda, in the present-day German state of Hesse.

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