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connection with its absorption into the historical, wooden building structure, so that some parts are considered to be at risk of collapse. In an initial overview, the monastery puts the total damage at a "high, double-digit million amount". The facility was completely evacuated and closed until further notice.
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for refusing to surrender the goods of the abbey. From 1681 to 1686 the cloister church was entirely rebuilt in the
Baroque style. The school had reopened by 1689, when the study of languages, music, mathematics and botany was especially emphasised. In 1698 the school in the north wing was opened.
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On August 26, 2023, as a result of a storm with hail and heavy rain, all buildings in the complex, including the basilica and
Anastasia Chapel, were affected. Almost all roofs were destroyed, numerous windows were broken and facades were damaged. The damage to the roof also led to water ingress in
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under the first abbot of the new foundation, Ellinger. Under the second abbot, Gothelm (1032–1062), and the monks
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had an involvement in the foundation; he may have consecrated the church (to the holy
Trinity), though this is not widely accepted. There was here a school of writing, whose work survives in the form of numerous codices of the 8th and 9th centuries.
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and the remainder left to be dispersed over time by the neglect or indifference of subsequent owners. There were reports, however, that, some books were used to fill holes in the cart tracks of the moor between the monastery and the river
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here in 1053, which by making the abbey a place of pilgrimage added substantially to its fame and prosperity; he was also its first historian.
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printed a catalogue of the library, dated 1250, in which more than one hundred and fifty books and manuscripts are enumerated .
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