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Abteihof Wadgassen

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    June 1, 2020

    The "Abadihof Wadgassen" was the heart of the farm buildings of the Premonstratensian Abbey Wadgassen, which went down in history as one of the centers of the Western Renaissance.

    Wadgassen was temporarily the seat of an order province, which stretched from Upper Lorraine over southern Germany to the Harz. Founded in 1135 on the floor of a Franconian royal estate first mentioned (and giving its name) in 902, the "Villa Wadegozzinga", by followers of the great medieval reformer Norbert von Xanten, it was doomed with the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789. In 1843, a crystal shop was opened on the site of the abbey, which was abandoned in 1792 and later turned into a quarry.

    The "Abadihof Wadgassen", since the mid-nineties ...
    wadgassen.de/wirtschaft-tourismus/abteihof-deutsches-zeitungsmuseum

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      Today run as a newspaper and printing museum.

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