* Einsiedeln Abbey is founded.

The system of neumes used in most of the earliest notational styles is rhythmically complex and sophisticated, particularly the styles of Laon and Einsiedeln Abbey.

Attesting to his early cultus, there is a very beautiful miniature from the tenth century in a manuscript now in the library of Einsiedeln ( no.

Northeast of the town of Schwyz is the Einsiedeln Abbey.

There is an old mansion ( Ritterhuus ) built in 1531 that bases on a tiny castle of 1492 serving as place of the former local administration of the Einsiedeln Abbey.

It is found on two manuscripts from Einsiedeln: MS Einsidlensis 365 and MS Einsidlensis 309.

Einsiedeln Abbey is a Benedictine monastery in the town of Einsiedeln in the Canton of Schwyz, Switzerland.

The abbey is dedicated to Our Lady of the Hermits, the title being derived from the circumstances of its foundation, from which the name Einsiedeln is also said to have originated.

It is true that discipline declined somewhat in the fifteenth century and the rule became relaxed, but Ludovicus II, a monk of St. Gall who was Abbot of Einsiedeln 1526-44, succeeded in restoring the stricter observance.

The pilgrimages, just mentioned, which have never ceased since the days of St Meinrad, have tended to make Einsiedeln the rival even of Rome, Loreto and Santiago de Compostela and constitute one of the features for which the abbey is chiefly celebrated.

The oldest and best manuscript of this Vita is in the library of Einsiedeln Abbey in Switzerland ( MS. No. 322 ), and has been printed with critical notes in Mon.

Einsiedeln is a municipality and district in the canton of Schwyz in Switzerland known for its monastery, the Benedictine Einsiedeln Abbey.

While the town of Einsiedeln is first mentioned in 1073, monastery and the area around were settled earlier.

Einsiedeln is made up of six localities: Bennau, Egg, Willerzell, Euthal, Gross and Trachslau.

Einsiedeln has a total area of, of which nearly half ( 47. 1 %) is agricultural and only slightly less ( 44. 5 %) is forested.

Einsiedeln is located approximately of the southern end of the Lake of Zurich, up a plateau ( ca.

Einsiedeln is also the capital and only municipality of the District of Einsiedeln.

The age distribution,, in Einsiedeln is ; 3, 211 people or 25. 4 % of the population is between 0 and 19.

In the vernacular, too, are the earliest descriptions of the Confederation, those by Albert von Bonstetten of Einsiedeln ( 1479 ) and by Conrad Turst of Zürich ( 1496 ), to whom also we owe the first map of the country ( 1495 – 1497 ).

Paracelsus was born and raised in the village of Einsiedeln in Switzerland.

At Einsiedeln in Switzerland he met the Blessed Nikolaus of Flüe, who was even then well known ; another time he journeyed to Sainte-Baume, near Marseilles, in order to pray in the grotto of St. Mary Magdalen.

There is one person in Einsiedeln who is over 100 years old.

** Der heilige Wolfgang, Bischof von Regensburg ; historische Festschrift zum neunhundertjährigen Gedächtnisse seines Todes, ed., in connection with numerous historical scholars, by MEHLER ( Ratisbon, 1894 ), among the chief collaborators on this work being BRAUNMULLER, RINGHOLZ ( of Einsiedeln ), and DANNERBAUER ; KOLBE, Die Verdienste des Bischofs Wolfgang v. R. um das Bildungswesen Suddeutschlands.

Three Benedictine abbeys — Einsiedeln, Engelberg, and Disentis — are within the diocese and, with the church of Saint Nicholas of Flüe at Sachseln, are places of pilgrimage.

In 1314 the conflict flared up again with an attack by Schwyz into Einsiedeln.

* the Einsiedeln Homily which was discovered in 1907, and consists of a few lines, in an early form of the Romonsch dialect, of interlinear translation ( with the original Latin text ) of a sermon attributed to St Augustine.

In 981 the name Erlibach was first mentioned when the monastery of Einsiedeln acquired the land.

From St. Meinrad Archabbey, St. Meinrad, Indiana, which was the first settlement, daughter-houses were founded and in 1881 these were formed into the Swiss-American Congregation, which in 2004 comprised 15 monasteries from Canada in the north down to Guatemala, 10 of which were directly founded from Einsiedeln.

Cross-country skiing ( skating style ) in Einsiedeln, Switzerland.

He continued his studies while he served as a pastor in Glarus and later in Einsiedeln, where he was influenced by the writings of Erasmus.

Zwingli, the papal partisan, found himself in a difficult position and he decided to retreat to Einsiedeln in the canton of Schwyz.

Zwingli stayed in Einsiedeln for two years during which he withdrew completely from politics in favour of ecclesiastical activities and personal studies.

Zwingli's time as the pastor of Glarus and Einsiedeln was characterized by inner growth and development.

Einsiedeln, Switzerland: Daimon Verlag, 1992 ISBN 3-85630-545-9.

In 744, the nunnery was sold to Einsiedeln Abbey.

In 744, the nunnery was sold to Einsiedeln Abbey.

* Saint Meinrad starts to live in Einsiedeln, Switzerland.

Billecocq, undertook the strenuous task to manually copy the neumes of two schools of generally concordant rhythmic manuscripts ( Einsiedeln / Sankt Gallen and Laon ) into the new type-set Roman Gradual of 1974.

c. 997-Versus de scachis in manuscript 319 at Stiftsbibliothek Einsiedeln.

* Helena M. Gamer, The Earliest Evidence of Chess in Western Literature: The Einsiedeln Verses, Speculum, Vol.

An anonymous 8th-century traveller from Einsiedeln ( now in Switzerland ) reported that the Forum was already falling apart in his time.

The Abbey of Einsiedeln and Schwyz town were two of the major powers in Schwyz.

Romansh remained the main language in Einsiedeln until the 10th century.

The forests around Einsiedeln were lightly settled.

In 948, Einsiedeln Abbey was consecrated on the site of Saint Meinrad's murder in 861 in a high valley near Schwyz.

When Einsiedeln Abbey was founded, it was granted many farms, villages and isolated churches helping to spread Christianity into the high valleys.