Hirschau

Hirschau, who died toward the end of the eleventh century, invented a horologium modeled after the celestial hemisphere; therefore he may have been the inventor of the clock, for soon after his death these striking bells begin to make their appearance on church towers and in other religious buildings.

Christopher and the Clockmakers Sara Ware Bassett 1920

This lasted only for a few years for, soon after, Hirschau adopted the

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Cluny was then at the height of its renown and thither Abbot William sent some of his monks to learn the customs and rule of that celebrated house, and on their return the Cluniac discipline was introduced at Hirschau.

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The community eventually came to an end and the once famous Abbey of Hirschau was finally destroyed by the French under Melac in 1692.

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Hirschau monks were sent out to reform other German monasteries on the same lines, and from it seven new monasteries were founded by

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Theologian, born at Hirschau, in the Upper Palatinate (Bavaria), 4

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It may perhaps include all those many other monasteries which, though no joining the congregation, adopted either wholly or in part the Cluny constitutions, such as Fleury, Hirschau, Farfa, and many others that were subject to their influence.

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They were first placed in the oratory of St. Nazarius at Calw, while the monastery of Hirschau was being built.

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Among the monasteries notable in this respect were those of the Benedictines at Corbie in Picardy, Hirschau, Braunweiler,

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(1514-56) Hirschau fell on evil times; the Protestant Reformation began to make its influence felt, and after a brief period of struggle, the abbey, through the connivance of Duke Ulrich of

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