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Himmelkron Abbey (Kloster Himmelkron) is located in Himmelkron in the district of Kulmbach in Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany.^[1]

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Abbey

An abbey is a type of monastery used by members of a religious order under the governance of an abbot or abbess.

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Abbot

Abbot is an ecclesiastical title given to the head of an independent monastery for men in various Western Christian traditions.

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Albert Alcibiades, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach

Albert II (Albrecht; 28 March 15228 January 1557) was the margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (Brandenburg-Bayreuth) from 1527 to 1553.

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Albert II of Germany

Albert the Magnanimous, elected King of the Romans as Albert II (10 August 139727 October 1439), was emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and a member of the House of Habsburg.

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Albert Wolfgang of Brandenburg-Bayreuth

Albert Wolfgang of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (8 December 1689 in Sulzbürg, now part of Mühlhausen – 29 June 1734 in Parma) was a Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth from the Kulmbach-Bayreuth side line of Franconian branch of the House of Hohenzollern.

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Annunciation

The Annunciation (from the Latin annuntiatio; also referred to as the Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Annunciation of Our Lady, or the Annunciation of the Lord; Ο Ευαγγελισμός της Θεοτόκου) is, according to the Gospel of Luke, the announcement made by the archangel Gabriel to Mary that she would conceive and bear a son through a virgin birth and become the mother of Jesus Christ, the Christian Messiah and Son of God, marking the Incarnation.

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Antonio della Porta

Antonio della Porta (c. 1631, Manno, Lugano - 3 August 1702, Bayreuth) was a Swiss Baroque architect and master builder, mainly active in Bohemia, Silesia and northern Bavaria.

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Bagpipes

Bagpipes are a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag.

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Baroque

The Baroque is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from the early 17th century until the 1750s.

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Bavaria

Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a state in the southeast of Germany.

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Bayreuth

Bayreuth (Bareid) is a town in northern Bavaria, Germany, on the Red Main river in a valley between the Franconian Jura and the Fichtel Mountains.

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Beatrix of Andechs-Merania

Beatrix of Merania (1210 – 9 February 1271) was a princess of Merania by birth, and the Countess of Weimar-Orlamünde by marriage.

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Berthold VII, Count of Henneberg-Schleusingen

Berthold VII, Count of Henneberg-Schleusingen (nicknamed the Wise, born: 1272 in Schleusingen; died: 13 April 1340, Schleusingen) was Count of Henneberg- Schleusingen from 1284 to 1340.

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Bugle

The bugle is a simple signaling brass instrument with a wide conical bore.

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Burgraviate of Nuremberg

The Burgraviate of Nuremberg (Burggrafschaft Nürnberg) was a state of the Holy Roman Empire from the early 12th to the late 15th centuries.

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Cemetery

A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite, graveyard, or a green space called a memorial park, is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred.

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Christian Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth

Christian Ernst of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (6 August 1644 in Bayreuth – 20 May 1712 in Erlangen) was a member of the House of Hohenzollern and Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth.

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Christian Henry, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach

Christian Heinrich of Brandenburg-Bayreuth-Kulmbach (29 July 1661, in Bayreuth – 5 April 1708, in Weferlingen), was a German prince and member of the House of Hohenzollern and nominal Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth-Kulmbach.

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Christmas

Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed primarily on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world.

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Christopher of Bavaria

Christopher of Bavaria (Danish and Norwegian: Christoffer af/av Bayern; Swedish Kristofer av Bayern; 26 February 1416 – 5/6 January 1448), was King of Denmark (1440–48, as Christopher III), Sweden (1441–48) and Norway (1442–48) during the era of the Kalmar Union.

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Cistercian nuns

Cistercian nuns are female members of the Cistercian Order, a religious order of the Catholic Church.

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Cloister

A cloister (from Latin, "enclosure") is a covered walk, open gallery, or open arcade running along the walls of buildings and forming a quadrangle or garth.

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Cornice

In architecture, a cornice (from the Italian cornice meaning "ledge") is generally any horizontal decorative moulding that crowns a building or furniture element—for example, the cornice over a door or window, around the top edge of a pedestal, or along the top of an interior wall.

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Creation myth

A creation myth or cosmogonic myth is a type of cosmogony, a symbolic narrative of how the world began and how people first came to inhabit it.

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Credo

In Christian liturgy, the credo (Latin for "I believe") is the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed – or its shorter version, the Apostles' Creed – in the Mass, either as a prayer, a spoken text, or sung as Gregorian chant or other musical settings of the Mass.

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Creed

A creed, also known as a confession of faith, a symbol, or a statement of faith, is a statement of the shared beliefs of a community (often a religious community) in a form which is structured by subjects which summarize its core tenets.

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Crozier

A crozier or crosier (also known as a paterissa, pastoral staff, or bishop's staff) is a stylized staff that is a symbol of the governing office of a bishop or abbot and is carried by high-ranking prelates of Roman Catholic, Eastern Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church, and some Anglican, Lutheran, United Methodist and Pentecostal churches.

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Crucifix

A crucifix (from the Latin cruci fixus meaning '(one) fixed to a cross') is a cross with an image of Jesus on it, as distinct from a bare cross.

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Crucifixion

Crucifixion is a method of capital punishment in which the condemned is tied or nailed to a large wooden cross, beam or stake and left to hang until eventual death.

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David

David ("beloved one") was a king of ancient Israel and Judah and the third king of the United Monarchy, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament.

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Deaconess

The ministry of a deaconess is a usually non-ordained ministry for women in some Protestant, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Orthodox churches to provide pastoral care, especially for other women, and which may carry a limited liturgical role.

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Diether von Isenburg

Diether von Isenburg (14127 May 1482) was twice Archbishop (1459–1461 and 1475–1482) and founder of the University of Mainz.

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Duchy of Mantua

The Duchy of Mantua (Ducato di Mantova; Ducaa de Mantua) was a duchy in Lombardy, northern Italy.

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Duchy of Merania

The Duchy of Merania was a fiefdom of the Holy Roman Empire from 1152 until 1248.

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Dulcimer

The word dulcimer refers to two families of musical string instruments.

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Epitaph

An epitaph is a short text honoring a deceased person.

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Feast of the Ascension

The Feast of the Ascension of Jesus Christ (also called the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord, Ascension Day, Ascension Thursday, or sometimes Holy Thursday) commemorates the Christian belief of the bodily Ascension of Jesus into Heaven.

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Flat Earth

Flat Earth is an archaic and scientifically disproven conception of the Earth's shape as a plane or disk.

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Frederick Christian, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth

Frederick Christian of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (17 July 1708 in Weferlingen – 20 January 1769 in Bayreuth), was a member of the House of Hohenzollern and Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth.

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Geocentric model

In astronomy, the geocentric model (also known as geocentrism, often exemplified specifically by the Ptolemaic system) is a superseded description of the Universe with Earth at the center.

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George Frederick Charles, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth

George Frederick Charles, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (19 June 1688 at Obersulzbürg Castle, near Mühlhausen – 17 May 1735 in Bayreuth), was a German prince, member of the House of Hohenzollern, nominal Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth-Kulmbach (1708–35) and Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1726–35).

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George William, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth

George William of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (German: Georg Wilhelm; 16 November 1678 in Bayreuth – 18 December 1726 in Bayreuth) was a member of the House of Hohenzollern and Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth.

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George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach

George of Brandenburg-Ansbach (German: Georg; 4 March 1484 – 27 December 1543), known as George the Pious (Georg der Fromme), was a Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach from the House of Hohenzollern.

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German Peasants' War

The German Peasants' War, Great Peasants' War or Great Peasants' Revolt (Deutscher Bauernkrieg) was a widespread popular revolt in some German-speaking areas in Central Europe from 1524 to 1525.

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Glashütten, Bavaria

Glashütten is a municipality in the district of Bayreuth in Bavaria in Germany.

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Handbell

A handbell is a bell designed to be rung by hand.

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Harp

The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers.

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Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte

The Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte (House of Bavarian History) or HdBG was established in 1983 as an authority of the Free State of Bavaria, Germany and, since 1993, has had its permanent headquarters at Augsburg.

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Heilsbronn Abbey

Heilsbronn Abbey was a Cistercian monastery at Heilsbronn in the district of Ansbach in Middle Franconia, Bavaria, Germany. Himmelkron Abbey and Heilsbronn Abbey are Monasteries in Bavaria.

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Henry II von Sonneberg

Henry II of Sonneberg (before 1249 – 1288) was the descendant of the von Sonneberg family and the founder of the Sonnefeld Monastery.

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Himmelkron

Himmelkron is a municipality in the district of Kulmbach in Bavaria in Germany.

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Hof, Bavaria

Hof is a town on the banks of the Saale in the northeastern corner of the German state of Bavaria, in the Franconian region, at the Czech border and the forested Fichtel Mountains and Franconian Forest upland regions.

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House of Guttenberg

The Guttenberg family is a prominent Franconian noble family.

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House of Henneberg

The House of Henneberg was a medieval German comital family (Grafen) which from the 11th century onwards held large territories in the Duchy of Franconia.

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House of Hohenzollern

The House of Hohenzollern (Haus Hohenzollern,; Casa de Hohenzollern) is a formerly royal (and from 1871 to 1918, imperial) German dynasty whose members were variously princes, electors, kings and emperors of Hohenzollern, Brandenburg, Prussia, the German Empire, and Romania.

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Hurdy-gurdy

The hurdy-gurdy is a string instrument that produces sound by a hand-crank-turned, rosined wheel rubbing against the strings.

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Hussite Wars

The Hussite Wars, also called the Bohemian Wars or the Hussite Revolution, were a series of civil wars fought between the Hussites and the combined Catholic forces of Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund, the Papacy, and European monarchs loyal to the Catholic Church, as well as various Hussite factions.

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Intellectual disability

Intellectual disability (ID), also known as general learning disability (in the United Kingdom) and formerly mental retardation (in the United States),Rosa's Law, Pub.

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Inventory

Inventory (American English) or stock (British English) refers to the goods and materials that a business holds for the ultimate goal of resale, production or utilisation.

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Isaiah

Isaiah (or; יְשַׁעְיָהוּ, Yəšaʿyāhū, "Yahweh is salvation"; also known as Isaias or Esaias from Ἠσαΐας) was the 8th-century BC Israelite prophet after whom the Book of Isaiah is named.

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Jagdschloss

A Jagdschloss is a hunting lodge in German-speaking countries.

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John II, Burgrave of Nuremberg

John II of Nuremberg (1309 – 1357) was a Burgrave of Nuremberg from the House of Hohenzollern.

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Künsberg

The Künsberg family was an old German noble family of knights from the Franconian Forest and Upper Franconia.

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Kotzau

The House of Kotzau was an old minor German noble family in Franconia, Germany.

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Kulmbach

Kulmbach is the capital of the district of Kulmbach in Bavaria in Germany.

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Kulmbach (district)

Kulmbach is a ''Landkreis'' (district) in Bavaria, Germany.

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Langheim Abbey

Langheim Abbey was a well-known Cistercian monastery in Klosterlangheim, part of the town of Lichtenfels in Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany, in the Bishopric of Bamberg. Himmelkron Abbey and Langheim Abbey are Monasteries in Bavaria.

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Livonian Brothers of the Sword

The Livonian Brothers of the Sword (Fratres militiæ Christi Livoniae, Schwertbrüderorden) was a Catholic military order established in 1202 during the Livonian Crusade by Albert, the third bishop of Riga (or possibly by Theoderich von Treydend).

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Ludovico Gonzaga (bishop)

Ludovico Gonzaga (1588–1632) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Alba (1619–1632).

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Lute

A lute is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body.

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Lutheranism

Lutheranism is a major branch of Protestantism that identifies primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German monk and reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practices of the Catholic Church ended the Middle Ages and, in 1517, launched the Reformation.

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Man of Sorrows

Man of Sorrows, a biblical term, is paramount among the prefigurations of the Messiah identified by the Bible in the passages of Isaiah 53 (Servant songs) in the Hebrew Bible.

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Margrave

Margrave was originally the medieval title for the military commander assigned to maintain the defence of one of the border provinces of the Holy Roman Empire or a kingdom.

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Martin Luther

Martin Luther (10 November 1483– 18 February 1546) was a German priest, theologian, author, hymnwriter, professor, and Augustinian friar.

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Monochord

A monochord, also known as sonometer (see below), is an ancient musical and scientific laboratory instrument, involving one (mono-) string (chord).

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Navarre

Navarre, officially the Chartered Community of Navarre, is a landlocked foral autonomous community and province in northern Spain, bordering the Basque Autonomous Community, La Rioja, and Aragon in Spain and Nouvelle-Aquitaine in France.

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Nave

The nave is the central part of a church, stretching from the (normally western) main entrance or rear wall, to the transepts, or in a church without transepts, to the chancel.

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Neuendettelsau

Neuendettelsau is a local authority in Middle Franconia, Germany.

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New Jerusalem

In the Book of Ezekiel in the Hebrew Bible, New Jerusalem (YHWH šāmmā, YHWH there") is Ezekiel's prophetic vision of a city centered on the rebuilt Holy Temple, the Third Temple, to be established in Jerusalem, which would be the capital of the Messianic Kingdom, the meeting place of the twelve tribes of Israel, during the Messianic era.

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Nicolaus Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus (19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon, who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center.

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Ocean

The ocean is the body of salt water that covers approx.

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Old Testament

The Old Testament (OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew and occasionally Aramaic writings by the Israelites.

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Order of the Dragon

The Order of the Dragon (Societas Draconistarum, literally "Society of the Dragonists") was a monarchical chivalric order only for selected higher aristocracy and monarchs,Florescu and McNally, Dracula, Prince of Many Faces.

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Order of the Elephant

The Order of the Elephant (Elefantordenen) is a Danish order of chivalry and is Denmark's highest-ranked honour.

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Order of the Jar

The Order of the Jar (Orden de la Jarra, Kannenorden) was a chivalric order founded by Ferdinand of Antequera in 1403.

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Order of the Red Eagle

The Order of the Red Eagle (Roter Adlerorden) was an order of chivalry of the Kingdom of Prussia.

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Order of the Swan

The Order of the Swan (Schwanenorden) was a spiritual chivalric order of princes and nobles ruled by the House of Hohenzollern.

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Orlamünde

Orlamünde is a small town in the Saale-Holzland district, in Thuringia, Germany.

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Otto III, Count of Weimar-Orlamünde

Otto III.

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Parish church

A parish church (or parochial church) in Christianity is the church which acts as the religious centre of a parish.

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Pentagram

A pentagram (sometimes known as a pentalpha, pentangle, or star pentagon) is a regular five-pointed star polygon, formed from the diagonal line segments of a convex (or simple, or non-self-intersecting) regular pentagon.

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Piscina

A piscina is a shallow basin placed near the altar of a church, or else in the vestry or sacristy, used for washing the communion vessels.

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Plassenburg

Plassenburg is a castle in the city of Kulmbach in Bavaria. Himmelkron Abbey and Plassenburg are buildings and structures in Kulmbach (district).

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Portative organ

A portative organ (from the Latin verb portare, "to carry"), also known during Italian Trecento as the organetto, is a small pipe organ that consists of one rank of flue pipes, sometimes arranged in two rows, to be played while strapped to the performer at a right angle.

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Principality of Bayreuth

The Principality of Bayreuth (Fürstentum Bayreuth) or Margraviate of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (Markgraftum Brandenburg-Bayreuth) was an immediate territory of the Holy Roman Empire, ruled by a Franconian branch of the Hohenzollern dynasty.

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Prior (ecclesiastical)

Prior (or prioress) is an ecclesiastical title for a superior in some religious orders.

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Protestantism

Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.

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Psaltery

A psaltery (ψαλτήρι) (or sawtry, an archaic form) is a fretboard-less box zither (a simple chordophone) and is considered the archetype of the zither and dulcimer.

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Pulpit altar

A pulpit altar or pulpit-altar is an altar in a church that is built together with a pulpit that is designed as an extension above the altar, so the pulpit, altar, and altarpiece form one unit.

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Rattle (percussion instrument)

A rattle is a type of percussion instrument which produces a sound when shaken.

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Red Main

The Red Main (Roter Main or Rotmain) is a river in southern Germany.

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Rehau

Rehau is a town in the district of Hof, in Bavaria, Germany.

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Relief

Relief is a sculptural method in which the sculpted pieces remain attached to a solid background of the same material.

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Resurrection of Jesus

The resurrection of Jesus (anástasis toú Iēsoú) is the Christian belief that God raised Jesus from the dead on the third day after his crucifixion, starting – or restoring – his exalted life as Christ and Lord.

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Ridge turret

A ridge turret is a turret or small tower constructed over the ridge or apex between two or more sloping roofs of a building.

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Rococo

Rococo, less commonly Roccoco, also known as Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and dramatic style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colours, sculpted moulding, and trompe-l'œil frescoes to create surprise and the illusion of motion and drama.

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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bamberg

The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Bamberg (lat. Archidioecesis Metropolitae Bambergensis) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in Bavaria, one of 27 in Germany.

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Sandstone

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains, cemented together by another mineral.

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Schorgast

Schorgast is a river of Bavaria, Germany.

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Second Margrave War

The Second Margrave War was a conflict in the Holy Roman Empire between 1552 and 1555.

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Shawm

The shawm is a conical bore, double-reed woodwind instrument made in Europe from the 12th century to the present day.

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Slide trumpet

The slide trumpet is an early type of trumpet fitted with a movable section of telescopic tubing, similar to the slide of a trombone.

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Sonnefeld Abbey

Sonnefeld Abbey (Kloster Sonnefeld; Campus Solis) is a former Cistercian nunnery in Sonnefeld in Bavaria, Germany. Himmelkron Abbey and Sonnefeld Abbey are Monasteries in Bavaria.

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Sparneck

Sparneck is a municipality in Upper Franconia in the district of Hof in Bavaria in Germany.

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Stammbach

Stammbach is a market town and municipality in the district of Hof in Bavaria in Germany.

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Swabian League

The Swabian League (Schwäbischer Bund) was a military alliance of imperial estates – imperial cities, prelates, principalities and knights – principally in the territory of the early medieval stem duchy of Swabia established in 1488.

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Tabor (instrument)

A tabor,, tabret (Tabwrdd), tambour de Provence, Provençal tambourin or Catalan tamborí is a portable snare drum, typically played either with one hand or with two drumsticks.

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Three-hole pipe

The three-hole pipe, also commonly known as tabor pipe or galoubet, is a wind instrument designed to be played by one hand, leaving the other hand free to play a tabor drum, bell, psalterium or tambourin à cordes, bones, triangle or other percussive instrument.

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Thurnau

Thurnau is a municipality in the district Kulmbach, Germany.

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Timpani

Timpani or kettledrums (also informally called timps) are musical instruments in the percussion family.

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Triangle

A triangle is a polygon with three corners and three sides, one of the basic shapes in geometry.

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Triskelion

A triskelion or triskeles is an ancient motif consisting either of a triple spiral exhibiting rotational symmetry or of other patterns in triplicate that emanate from a common center.

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Trumpet

The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles.

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Uniform Resource Name

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Upper Franconia

Upper Franconia (Oberfranken) is a Regierungsbezirk (administrative region) of the state of Bavaria, southern Germany.

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Veil of Veronica

The Veil of Veronica, or Sudarium (Latin for sweat-cloth), also known as the Vernicle and often called simply the Veronica, is a Christian relic consisting of a piece of cloth said to bear an image of the Holy Face of Jesus produced by other than human means (an acheiropoieton, "made without hand").

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Vielle

The vielle is a European bowed stringed instrument used in the medieval period, similar to a modern violin but with a somewhat longer and deeper body, three to five gut strings, and a leaf-shaped pegbox with frontal tuning pegs, sometimes with a figure-8 shaped body.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himmelkron_Abbey

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See also

Baroque church buildings in Germany

Buildings and structures in Kulmbach (district)

Christian monasteries disestablished in the 16th century

Former Christian monasteries in Germany

References