- The term
Stift (German: [ˈʃtɪft] ; Dutch: sticht) is
derived from the verb
stiften (to donate) and
originally meant 'a donation'. Such
donations usually...
- Obermünster Abbey, Regensburg, was a
collegiate house of
canonesses (
Frauenstift) in Regensburg, Bavaria,
second only to Niedermünster in
wealth and power...
-
Thomas Labusiak and
Hedwig Röckelein, Regensburg, 2009 (Studien zum
Frauenstift Gandersheim und
seinen Eigenklöstern, vol. 1). "Opening of the present...
-
Quedlinburg or
Reichsstift Quedlinburg) was a
house of
secular canonesses (
Frauenstift) in
Quedlinburg in what is now Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It was founded...
-
without rules and vows, for
either men ("Herrenstift") or for
women (
Frauenstift), has been left untranslated,
except when it
specifically refers to the...
- Princess-Abbess of the
Theresian Imperial and
Royal Convent for
Noble Ladies (
Frauenstift) in
Prague with the
promise of 80,000
florins per year.
Despite the opposition...
- (German:
Stift Gandersheim) is a
former house of
secular canonesses (
Frauenstift) in the
present town of Bad
Gandersheim in
Lower Saxony, Germany. It...
- 936, his
widow Saint Matilda founded a
religious community for
women (
Frauenstift) on the
castle hill,
where daughters of the
higher nobility were educated...
- Bavaria. Over the same time, the
prerogatives of the
manorial church Frauenstift Munich and
Maxlrain were
gradually lost.
Residents were able to purchase...
- zu sächsischen Frauenstiften, in the
series Essener Forschungen zum
Frauenstift, vol. 4, Essen, 2006 C. Römer: Braunschweig-Bevern, Ein Fürstenhaus als...
