Rule in Cloisters and Castles
Cloister Wald 1681 | © Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Quelle: Staatsarchiv Sigmaringen FAS DS 39 T 1-3 R 74,14
Subproject:
B 03 Development of Resources and Dominions in the Middle Ages. Cloisters and Castles
Project leadership:
Prof. Dr. Jörn Staecker, Prof. Dr. Steffen Patzold
Staff:
Christina Vossler-Wolf, Marco Krätschmer, Katja Thode
Region:
Southern Germany, Switzerland
What role did cloisters and castles play in the exercise of power?
The subproject ‚Development of Resources and Dominions in the Middle Ages. Cloisters and Castles’ is dedicated to the cloisters and castles in Upper Swabia and an abandoned settlement in the northern Black Forest. It is examined how settlement communities, orders and aristocracy developed and used these. This showed that the development of these resources was closely connected to the exercise of power. In cloisters, economic and spiritual resources influenced each other. For example, cloisters received land grants from their social environment in return for the monks prayers.