Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/298/en

The encounter and interpenetration of the two streams of Christianity — the exoteric and the esoteric — created, over two hundred years from the seventh to the ninth century AD, a cultural site on the Reichenau that sent its light across all of Europe. The Benedictine abbey became the "school of diplomacy" of Europe, cultivated relations among others with the court of Charlemagne, and stood in connection with the Grail-stream. Around the shores of Lake Constance, settlements of the most varied monastic orders arose in great density. In the High Middle Ages the landscapes around the Lake Constance region were called "the garden of God in the heart of Christendom." Here arose the archetypal image of the cultural landscape.