Religious Women’s Communities in the Southern Upper Rhine

From Benedictine and ecclesiastical convents to Cistercian and Dominican nuns: this conference provides an impetus for further research on women’s convents and nunneries in Breisgau, Upper Alsace and the Upper Rhine that have been ignored by research up to this point. The conference will focus on „old“ communities, which refers to communities that are not controlled through an order and whose leaders had a great deal of freedom to decide for themselves, but also orders embedded in communities who are supervised by members of religious groups. The convents are the central focus of the lectures that are outside the Episcopal cities in the southwest because the monasteries in Freiburg, Strasbourg, Basel or Constance have already been thoroughly researched. Questions in the latest research pertaining to dominion, gender relations, standardization and social constellations will also be addressed.

• What: Scientific conference
  
  
• When: Starting March 30, 2016 at 3:30pm, ending April 1, 2017 at 12pm.  
  
  
• Where:
  Elztal museum
  Barocksaal
  Kirchplatz 14
  79183 Waldkirch
  
  
• The event is open to the general public.
  
  
• Host: Department of Regional History in the Historic Seminar, University of Freiburg, Consortium for Historic Regional Studies in the Upper Rhine in cooperation with the city of Waldkirch
  
  
• Contact information: Dr. Christine Kleinjung, Tel.: +49 (0) 761 2033462
  
  
• Pre-registration is required via E-Mail to krimm@ag-landeskunde-oberrhein.de.
  
  
• Free entrance.
  
  
• The lecture will be held in German.
  
  
• Further information (in German)