Schottenkloster

As Scots monasteries those are monasteries called on the European continent, which in the Middle Ages around 1200 mainly in Southern Germany and Austria by monks or monks of the iroschottischen Church were founded. An important source for the early history of the Scottish monasteries is the Vita Mariani Scotti .

The first wave of lively missionary activity had emanated from Ireland since the early Middle Ages (see Irish Scottish Mission ). In monasteries that were founded in the 6th to the 10th century by monks iroschottischen, speaking generally of iroschottischen monastic foundations and not of Scots monasteries .

Well-known Schottenklöster and Schottenkirchen

• Schottenkloster Eichstätt
• Schottenkloster St. Jakob in Erfurt with the Schottenkirche (Erfurt)
• Schottenkloster Kelheim
• Scots monastery Kiev
• Schottenkloster Konstanz
• Schottenkloster Memmingen
• Schottenkloster Nuremberg
• Schottenkloster St. Jakob (Regensburg) with the Schottenkirche St. Jakob (Regensburg)
• St. Peter Monastery (Regensburg)
• Schottenstift in Vienna with the Schottenkirche (Vienna)
• Schottenkloster Würzburg
• Ross Carberry Priory

literature

• Helmut Flachenecker : Schottenklöster. Irish Benedictine convents in high medieval Germany (sources and research from the field of history NS 18), Paderborn et al. 1995.
• Stefan Weber : Irish on the continent. The life of Marianus Scottus of Regensburg and the beginnings of the Irish “Schottenklöster” , Heidelberg 2010.