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 Geschichte Bayerns > Culture
World Cultural Heritage in Bavaria   Preservation and Upkeep of Cultural Artefacts   Monasteries as Centres of Learning and Science
   
The UNESCO World Cultural Heritage list includes:

The old town of Bamberg with the cathedral (Late Romanesque/Early Gothic, consecrated in 1237, with stone sculptures  ...

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  Bavaria contains around 110,000 sacred and profane structures that are listed as protected monuments. The State Office for the Preservation of Public Monuments is responsible for their ...

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  In the Middle Ages, the monasteries were crucially important centres of learning and science. During the 16th century numerous schools and centres of education were set up by sovereign ...

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The State as Patron of Education and Science   Music and Theatre   Folk Art
   
The dissolution of 150 monasteries in 1802/03 created central scientific collections and archives that primarily benefited research at universities. The state became the patron of ...

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  The monasteries and churches were the first centres of sophisticated music, and remained so until 1802/03. The first significant composer in Bavaria was Orlando di Lasso, master of ...

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  A typical feature of many Bavarian towns and villages is the style of painting known as "Lüftlmalerei", deriving from Italian and South German facade painting during the baroque era ...

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Town Architecture and Town Crafts   Royal Residences and Representative Structures   Churches in Bavaria
   
Forms of municipal self-administration gradually developed in the towns of Bavaria, and especially in the free imperial cities which enjoyed self-rule until 1806. In the trading and ...

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  Bavaria's wealth of castles and palaces derives from the large number of religious and secular states that occupied Bavarian soil before 1806 and frequently demonstrated their claim ...

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  Bavaria's cultural landscape is visibly dotted with church towers and monasteries. The local populationn was converted to Christianity during the 7th and 8th centuries by Irish and ...

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Treasures of Medieval Churches and Monasteries        
         
       
As in the rest of medieval Europe, the monasteries of Bavaria were centres of learning and science. They preserved not only the works of Antique authors but also medieval literature ...

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