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My new photo album Wissembourg, France
Sunday, February 5, 2012 8:11:35 PM
In April 2009 I've been to the French city Wissembourg which lies in the very northern Alsace. The album "Wissembourg, France" in the photo section shows some cell phone images from this trip. The photo on the left shows the old cloister next to the church Saints Pierre et Paul. There isn't much left of the former abbey in Wissembourg, just that cloister and the old chapter house. Otfrid of Weissenburg (German for Wissembourg) who lived from about 800 until about 870 was a monk there. He is the first German writing author whose name is known by his work, the Evangelienbuch which shows the use of rhyme and which is written in the South Rhine Franconian dialect of Old High German instead of in the then used Latin. There still exist four contemporary manuscripts of this religious poem. So, the abbey church Saints Pierre et Paul and the city Wissembourg itself have grown around that Benedictine abbey (founded in the 7th century).
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